Where does Airbus DS SLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus DS SLC ranks #16,562 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 SLC hold?

Airbus DS SLC holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Airbus DS SLC's Innovation Score?

Airbus DS SLC has an Innovation Score of 31.7 out of 100 (39th 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 Airbus DS SLC focus on?

Airbus DS SLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 13 patents, ranking #1,946 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

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

Airbus DS SLC's recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Airbus DS SLC's patents?

Airbus DS SLC's patents average 10.7 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 SLC 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 SLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #16,562 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 6 technology areas.

#16,562
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.7/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16562 · Foreign Corporation #16,562 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,562/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Affectlayer
CPC-NARROW H04L · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Affectlayer, 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 31.7 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 10.0 pts (31%) Velocity 6.7 pts (21%) Breadth 8.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus DS SLC · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 31.7/100 (39th 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 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 10.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.9 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.

Where Airbus's grants concentrate

Airbus DS SLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 76.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Airbus sits between Affectlayer, Inc. and Algotec Systems Ltd..

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

Airbus DS SLC shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Affectlayer

17
Growth Internatio…

17
Agatsuma

17
Ai21 Labs

17
Akita University

17
Alcor Scientific

17
Alexander Wang In…

17
Algotec Systems

17
Airbus DS SLC ◀

17

What this shows Airbus holds 17 patents at rank #16,551, 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 #16,551 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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)

32 39th percentile higher than 39% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Airbus DS SLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	5.9%
2018	1	5.9%
2019	2	11.8%
2020	3	17.6%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	4	23.5%
2024	2	11.8%
2025partial year	3	17.6%

Which technologies does Airbus DS SLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 10

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04B - Transmission 3

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 1

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 1

Top 6 of 6 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 SLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus DS SLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #16,562 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus DS SLC against Affectlayer, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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