Where does Airbus Helicopters rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Helicopters ranks #896 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 hold?

Airbus Helicopters holds 501 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 144 technology areas.

What is Airbus Helicopters's Innovation Score?

Airbus Helicopters has an Innovation Score of 62.5 out of 100 (top 2% 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 focus on?

Airbus Helicopters's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 340 patents, ranking #8 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 144 CPC subclasses total.

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

Airbus Helicopters's recent grant velocity is -37% 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's patents?

Airbus Helicopters's patents average 17.2 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 Helicopters 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

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 501 granted patents across 144 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 #896 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 501 patents across 144 technology areas.

#896
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.5/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R896 · Foreign Corporation #896 · 501 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 501 grants
TOP-DECILE #896/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Atlassian PTY
CPC-WIDE B64C · 144 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Atlassian PTY Ltd. (±1 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 62.5 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 21.5 pts (34%) Velocity 5.7 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus Helicopters · this assignee

63
Dexterity · near

63
Ofinno · near

63
Trustees OF Boston… · near

63
Shanghai Tianma Micro- · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 62.5/100 (top 2% 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 17.2 claims/patent is at or below the 18.6 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 Helicopters received 189 grants versus 298 in 2015–2019 (-37% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 75 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 22. Lead class B64C accounts for 67.9% of the portfolio across 144 subclasses. Volume neighbours: KLA Corporation (#892) and Dalian University of Technology (#900).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Helicopters moved from 123 to 105 grants (0.85x 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 #1,652. See the growth leaderboard.

KLA

503
Novo Nordisk A/S

503
FEI

502
Nidec Sankyo

502
Airbus Helicopters ◀

501
Atlassian PTY

500
China Petroleum &…

500
United Parcel Ser…

500
Dalian University…

499

What this shows Airbus holds 501 patents at rank #896, 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 #896 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 #8 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Trustees OF Boston University 63 Ofinno, LLC 63 Dexterity, Inc. 63 Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd. 17.2 avg Khalifa University of Science and Technology 17.2 avg Soraa, Inc. 17.2 avg Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd. 17.2 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	75	15.0%
2016	71	14.2%
2017	57	11.4%
2018	56	11.2%
2019	39	7.8%
2020	49	9.8%
2021	35	7.0%
2022	34	6.8%
2023	49	9.8%
2024	22	4.4%
2025partial year	14	2.8%

Which technologies does Airbus Helicopters patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 340

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 214

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 64

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 57

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 55

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 54

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 31

F16H - Gearing 29

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 28

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 28

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 23

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 23

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 16

Top 15 of 144 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's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Helicopters's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 67.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #896 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Helicopters against KLA Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.5/100 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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