* All patents published between January 2010 and March 2019. The figures exclude patents only applied for in China.
The numbers refer to patent families; a patent family comprises grants and applications for a single individual invention in individual countries, according to the source.
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Published 3D printing patents by country 2010-2018
This statistic shows the number of patents published for 3D printing technology by country from 2010 to 2018. In 2018, United States had a total of *** published patents for 3D printing.
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