Where does Airbus Defence and Space GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Defence and Space GmbH ranks #1,014 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 Defence and Space GmbH hold?

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH holds 433 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 191 technology areas.

What is Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's Innovation Score?

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH has an Innovation Score of 58.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's patents?

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's patents average 13.4 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 Defence and Space GmbH 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 Defence and Space GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Airbus Defence and Space GmbH focus on?

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's top technology area is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft) with 85 patents, ranking #40 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 191 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 433 granted patents across 191 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #1,014 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 433 patents across 191 technology areas.

#1,014
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.7/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1014 · Foreign Corporation #1,014 · 433 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 433 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,014/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Universal
CPC-WIDE B64D · 191 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Universal Electronics 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 Airbus’s 58.7 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 21.0 pts (36%) Velocity 4.7 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Defence and… · this assignee

59
Deepx · near

59
Delta Faucet · near

59
Nippon Sheet Glass · near

59
Voith Patent · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 58.7/100 (top 4% 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 13.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 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.

How Airbus's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH received 202 grants versus 216 in 2015–2019 (-6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 68 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 6. Lead class B64D accounts for 19.6% of the portfolio across 191 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (#1,010) and Lite-on Electronics (GUANGZHOU) Limited (#1,018).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH moved from 159 to 111 grants (0.70x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,160. See the growth leaderboard.

Akamai

434
National Chiao Tu…

434
Panduit

434
Resmed

434
Universal

433
Airbus Defence an… ◀

433
Toyo Tire

432
Beijing Zitiao Ne…

431
Lite-on (Guangzho…

431

What this shows Airbus holds 433 patents at rank #1,014, 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 #1,014 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Airbus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Airbus ranks #40 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Voith Patent GmbH 59 Delta Faucet Company 59 Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited 59 Deepx Co., Ltd. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.4 here).

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH 13.4 avg HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 13.4 avg Firestone Building Products Company, LLC 13.4 avg Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd. 13.4 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

View data table

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	1.4%
2016	23	5.3%
2017	54	12.5%
2018	65	15.0%
2019	68	15.7%
2020	53	12.2%
2021	38	8.8%
2022	37	8.5%
2023	36	8.3%
2024	38	8.8%
2025partial year	15	3.5%

Which technologies does Airbus Defence and Space GmbH patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 85

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 76

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 63

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 49

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 43

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 40

H04B - Transmission 37

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 33

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 32

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 32

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 31

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 26

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 26

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 24

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 22

Top 15 of 191 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 Defence and Space GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH's lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 19.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #1,014 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Defence and Space GmbH against Akamai Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.7/100 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

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