Where does Airbus Defence AND Space SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Defence AND Space SAS ranks #1,683 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 SAS hold?

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS holds 244 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 111 technology areas.

What is Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's Innovation Score?

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS has an Innovation Score of 58.4 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%).

What technology areas does Airbus Defence AND Space SAS focus on?

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's top technology area is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor) with 87 patents, ranking #1 of 230 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 111 CPC subclasses total.

Is Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's recent grant velocity is -8% 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 SAS's patents?

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's patents average 14.2 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 SAS 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 SAS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 244 granted patents across 111 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: B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #1,683 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 244 patents across 111 technology areas.

#1,683
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1683 · Foreign Corporation #1,683 · 244 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 244 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,683/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beckman Coulter
CPC-WIDE B64G · 111 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beckman Coulter, 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 58.4 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 19.0 pts (33%) Velocity 5.9 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Defence AND… · this assignee

58
Bigo Technology PTE · near

58
Lonza · near

58
NEW York Society… · near

58
Sagemcom Broadband SAS · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (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 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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 SAS received 108 grants versus 117 in 2015–2019 (-8% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 31 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 17. Lead class B64G accounts for 35.7% of the portfolio across 111 subclasses. Volume neighbours: MicroStrategy Incorporated (#1,679) and Prysmian S.p.A. (#1,687).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Defence AND Space SAS moved from 71 to 63 grants (0.89x 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 #1,525. See the growth leaderboard.

Microstrategy Inc…

245
Shenzhen Universi…

245
Telecom Italia S…

245
The Mitre

245
Beckman Coulter

244
Icahn School OF M…

244
LG Hausys

244
Prysmian S p A

244
Airbus Defence AN… ◀

244

What this shows Airbus holds 244 patents at rank #1,683, 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 #1,683 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64G (Cosmonautics)

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 B64G (Cosmonautics), Airbus ranks #1 of 230 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Sagemcom Broadband SAS 58 Lonza Ltd 58 Bigo Technology PTE. Ltd. 58 NEW York Society FOR THE Relief OF THE Ruptured AND Crippled, Maintaining THE Hospital FOR Special Surgery 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Basell Polyolefine GmbH 14.2 avg The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. 14.2 avg Exact Sciences Corporation 14.2 avg Oculus VR, LLC 14.2 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 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.

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Airbus Defence AND Space SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	7.0%
2016	21	8.6%
2017	22	9.0%
2018	31	12.7%
2019	26	10.7%
2020	23	9.4%
2021	22	9.0%
2022	21	8.6%
2023	21	8.6%
2024	21	8.6%
2025partial year	19	7.8%

Which technologies does Airbus Defence AND Space SAS patent most?

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 87

H04B - Transmission 33

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 21

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 19

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 16

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 13

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 12

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 10

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 8

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 8

Top 15 of 111 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 SAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Defence AND Space SAS's lead technology class is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor), 35.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64G
Ranked #1,683 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Defence AND Space SAS against MicroStrategy Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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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