Where does Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH ranks #1,899 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH hold?

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH holds 211 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 86 technology areas.

What is Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's Innovation Score?

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH has an Innovation Score of 60.1 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH focus on?

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 171 patents, ranking #11 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 86 CPC subclasses total.

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

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's recent grant velocity is -10% 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's patents?

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's patents average 17.1 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 Helicopters Deutschland 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 211 granted patents across 86 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #1,899 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 211 patents across 86 technology areas.

#1,899
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.1/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -10%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1899 · Foreign Corporation #1,899 · 211 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 211 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,899/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GE Energy Power…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 86 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -10% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited (±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 60.1 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 18.5 pts (31%) Velocity 6.3 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Edwards · near

60
Airbus Helicopters… · this assignee

60
Fred Hutchinson… · near

60
Pragmatic Printing · near

60
WiTricity · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 60.1/100 (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 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.7 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH received 95 grants versus 105 in 2015–2019 (-10% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 26 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 13. Lead class B64C accounts for 81% of the portfolio across 86 subclasses. Volume neighbours: nLIGHT, Inc. (#1,895) and Sun Chemical Corporation (#1,903).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH moved from 57 to 54 grants (0.95x 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 #1,327. See the growth leaderboard.

nlight

213
Agco International

212
The Board of Rege…

212
UniversitÉ D'aix-…

212
GE Energy Power C…

211
Rosenberger Hochf…

211
Strong Force Iot…

211
Sun Chemical

211
Airbus Helicopter… ◀

211

What this shows Airbus holds 211 patents at rank #1,899, 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 #1,899 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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 B64C (Aeroplanes), Airbus ranks #11 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

WiTricity Corporation 60 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 60 Pragmatic Printing Ltd. 60 Edwards Limited 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Lely Patent N.V. 17.1 avg Lonza Ltd 17.1 avg Cummins IP, Inc. 17.1 avg The University Court of the University of Glasgow 17.1 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	11.4%
2016	26	12.3%
2017	15	7.1%
2018	24	11.4%
2019	16	7.6%
2020	26	12.3%
2021	15	7.1%
2022	17	8.1%
2023	24	11.4%
2024	13	6.2%
2025partial year	11	5.2%

Which technologies does Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 171

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 60

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 37

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 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 16

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 13

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 11

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 10

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 8

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 7

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

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 6

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 5

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 5

Top 15 of 86 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 Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 81% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #1,899 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH against nLIGHT, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.1/100 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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