Where does Airbus Canada Limited Partnership rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Canada Limited Partnership ranks #17,421 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 Airbus Canada Limited Partnership hold?

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's Innovation Score?

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership has an Innovation Score of 40.6 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Airbus Canada Limited Partnership focus on?

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 10 patents, ranking #124 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Is Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Airbus Canada Limited Partnership.

What does claim depth mean for Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's patents?

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's patents average 17.6 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 Airbus Canada Limited Partnership 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

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 20 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #17,421 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 20 technology areas.

#17,421
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17421 · Foreign Corporation #17,421 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,421/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Afiniti Internationa…
CPC-FOCUS B64C · 20 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Afiniti International Holdings, Ltd. (±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 Airbus’s 40.6 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 9.8 pts (24%) Velocity 4.4 pts (11%) Breadth 15.8 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Canada… · this assignee

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 40.6/100 (top 35% 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 Airbus?

Each dot is one of Airbus’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). Airbus’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Airbus's grants concentrate

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Airbus sits between Afiniti International Holdings, Ltd. and Amenity Health, Inc..

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Afiniti Internati…

16
Agence Spatiale E…

16
Ahp-tech

16
Air Vent

16
Akervall

16
Aldila Golf

16
Aleta Biotherapeu…

16
Amenity Health

16
Airbus Canada Par… ◀

16

What this shows Airbus holds 16 patents at rank #17,445, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Airbus

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,445 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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Airbus Canada Limited Partnership patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	6.3%
2021	8	50.0%
2022	3	18.8%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	2	12.5%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Airbus Canada Limited Partnership patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 10

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 10

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

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 3

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

A62C - Fire-fighting 2

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 1

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 1

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 1

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 1

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 1

Top 15 of 20 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

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Canada Limited Partnership's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #17,421 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Canada Limited Partnership against Afiniti International Holdings, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.6/100 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.