Where does Airbus DS GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus DS GMBH ranks #5,566 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 DS GMBH hold?

Airbus DS GMBH holds 61 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 75 technology areas.

What is Airbus DS GMBH's Innovation Score?

Airbus DS GMBH has an Innovation Score of 47.1 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Airbus DS GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus DS GMBH's recent grant velocity is -85% 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 DS GMBH's patents?

Airbus DS GMBH's patents average 13.1 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 DS 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 DS GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Airbus DS GMBH focus on?

Airbus DS GMBH's top technology area is 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) with 12 patents, ranking #463 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 75 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 61 granted patents across 75 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #5,566 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 61 patents across 75 technology areas.

#5,566
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.1/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: -85%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5566 · Foreign Corporation #5,566 · 61 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 61 grants
UPPER-Q #5,566/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Accelink
CPC-WIDE G01S · 75 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -85% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Accelink Technologies Co., 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 47.1 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 14.3 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (53%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus DS · this assignee

47
BAE Systems Bofors AB · near

47
Daiki · near

47
Server Technology · near

47
Sorenson IP Holdings · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 47.1/100 (top 19% 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 13.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 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 DS GMBH received 8 grants versus 53 in 2015–2019 (-85% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 16 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class G01S accounts for 19.7% of the portfolio across 75 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Yakima Products, Inc. (#5,562) and Beijing Founder Electronics Co., Ltd. (#5,570).

Yakima Products

62
ebm-papst St Geor…

62
eldolab Holding B…

62
Accelink

61
Alivecor

61
Beijing Kuangshi…

61
Braskem America

61
Beijing Founder

61
Airbus DS ◀

61

What this shows Airbus holds 61 patents at rank #5,566, 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 #5,566 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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 G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Airbus ranks #463 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Server Technology, Inc. 47 Daiki Co., Ltd. 47 BAE Systems Bofors AB 47 Sorenson IP Holdings, LLC 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Umicore Korea Ltd. 13.1 avg United States Endoscopy Group, Inc. 13.1 avg Elmos Semiconductor SE 13.1 avg Semiconductor Manufacturing (Beijing) International Corporation 13.1 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 DS GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	3.3%
2016	6	9.8%
2017	14	23.0%
2018	15	24.6%
2019	16	26.2%
2020	8	13.1%

Which technologies does Airbus DS GMBH patent most?

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 12

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 11

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

H04B - Transmission 9

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H02S - Generation OF Electric Power BY Conversion OF Infrared Radiation, Visible Light OR Ultraviolet Light, e.g. Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules 3

C12M - Apparatus FOR Enzymology OR MICROBIOLOGY; Apparatus FOR Culturing Microorganisms FOR Producing Biomass, FOR Growing Cells OR FOR Obtaining Fermentation OR Metabolic Products, i.e. Bioreactors OR Fermenters 3

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 3

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 3

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 3

Top 15 of 75 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 DS GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus DS GMBH's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 19.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #5,566 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus DS GMBH against Yakima Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.1/100 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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