Where does Aerovel Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aerovel Corporation ranks #25,670 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 Aerovel Corporation hold?

Aerovel Corporation holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Aerovel Corporation's Innovation Score?

Aerovel Corporation has an Innovation Score of 29.3 out of 100 (30th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aerovel Corporation focus on?

Aerovel Corporation's top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 10 patents, ranking #85 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aerovel Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aerovel Corporation's recent grant velocity is -75% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Aerovel Corporation's patents?

Aerovel Corporation's patents average 14.5 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 Aerovel Corporation 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 US Corporation

Aerovel Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Aerovel ranks #25,670 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 5 technology areas.

#25,670
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 30th percentile
by Innovation Score (29.3/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25670 · US Corporation #25,670 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,670/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Advanced Composite…
CPC-NARROW B64U · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Advanced Composite Specialties, 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 Aerovel’s 29.3 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 8.3 pts (28%) Velocity 4.4 pts (15%) Breadth 7.9 pts (27%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aerovel · this assignee

29
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aerovel's Innovation Score is 29.3/100 (30th percentile 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 Aerovel?

Each dot is one of Aerovel’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). Aerovel’s own 14.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Aerovel's grants concentrate

Aerovel Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Aerovel sits between Advanced Composite Specialties, Inc. and Airbus Corporate Jet Centre.

Aerovel's three-year grant acceleration

Aerovel Corporation shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Advanced Composit…

10
Advanced Concrete

10
Advanced Silicon

10
Advantus

10
Agfa Offset BV

10
Ahlstrom

10
Aimmune Therapeut…

10
Airbus Corporate…

10
Aerovel ◀

10

What this shows Aerovel holds 10 patents at rank #25,752, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aerovel

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,752 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Aerovel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

29 30th percentile higher than 30% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aerovel Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	40.0%
2016	1	10.0%
2019	3	30.0%
2022	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Aerovel Corporation patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 10

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 5

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Aerovel Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aerovel Corporation's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #25,670 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aerovel Corporation against Advanced Composite Specialties, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.3/100 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

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