Where does Aeronext Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aeronext Inc. ranks #9,957 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Aeronext Inc. hold?

Aeronext Inc. holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Aeronext Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Aeronext Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aeronext Inc. focus on?

Aeronext Inc.'s top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 30 patents, ranking #34 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aeronext Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Aeronext Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Aeronext Inc.'s patents?

Aeronext Inc.'s patents average 9.7 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Aeronext Inc. patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Aeronext Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aeronext ranks #9,957 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 16 technology areas.

#9,957
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 9.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9957 · Foreign Corporation #9,957 · 31 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #9,957/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 14th Round
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 14th Round Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Aeronext’s 51.9 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 12.0 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (39%) Breadth 14.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 5.8 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aeronext · this assignee

52
Musc Foundation for… · near

52
Pi Tech Innovations · near

52
Polar Electro Oy · near

52
Valspar Sourcing · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aeronext's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Aeronext?

Each dot is one of Aeronext’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Aeronext’s own 9.7 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

Aeronext vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Aeronext's grants concentrate

Aeronext Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 96.8% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Aeronext sits between ÉCOLE Polytechnique FÉDÉRALE DE Lausanne and Ambri, LLC.

Aeronext's three-year grant acceleration

Aeronext Inc. shows 18 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

ÉCOLE Polytechniq…

32
14th Round

31
Abloy OY

31
Adare Pharmaceuti…

31
Affibody AB

31
AGP America

31
Allied Telesis Ho…

31
Ambri

31
Aeronext ◀

31

What this shows Aeronext holds 31 patents at rank #9,950, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aeronext

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,950 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Aeronext's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aeronext, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Aeronext ranks #34 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Valspar Sourcing, Inc. 52 Musc Foundation for Research Development 52 Polar Electro Oy 52 Pi Tech Innovations LLC 52

Aeronext's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2020–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aeronext Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	3.2%
2021	1	3.2%
2022	3	9.7%
2023	10	32.3%
2024	5	16.1%
2025partial year	11	35.5%

Which technologies does Aeronext Inc. patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 30

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 28

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 14

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 7

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

B64B - Lighter-than AIR Aircraft 2

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Aeronext Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aeronext Inc.'s lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 96.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #9,957 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aeronext Inc. against ÉCOLE Polytechnique FÉDÉRALE DE Lausanne, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.