Where does Airbus Operations Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Operations Limited ranks #144 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 Operations Limited hold?

Airbus Operations Limited holds 2,643 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 282 technology areas.

What is Airbus Operations Limited's Innovation Score?

Airbus Operations Limited has an Innovation Score of 66.8 out of 100 (top 1% 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 Operations Limited focus on?

Airbus Operations Limited's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 1,292 patents. Grants appear in 282 CPC subclasses total.

Is Airbus Operations Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus Operations Limited's recent grant velocity is -21% 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 Operations Limited's patents?

Airbus Operations Limited's patents average 14.8 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 Operations Limited 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 Operations Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,643 granted patents across 282 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #144 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,643 patents across 282 technology areas.

#144
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.8/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R144 · Foreign Corporation #144 · 2,643 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 2.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #144/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asml Netherlands B V
CPC-BROAD B64C · 282 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asml Netherlands B.V. (±2 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Allstate Insurance · near

67
ZF CV Systems Global · near

67
Airbus Operations · this assignee

67
Novatek Microelectro… · near

67
United States of… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 66.8/100 (top 1% 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.

How Airbus's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Airbus Operations Limited received 1,072 grants versus 1,365 in 2015–2019 (-21% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 319 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 187. Lead class B64C accounts for 48.9% of the portfolio across 282 subclasses. Volume neighbours: CNH Industrial America LLC (#140) and Red Hat, Inc. (#148).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Operations Limited moved from 724 to 614 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 #1,666. See the growth leaderboard.

CNH Industrial Am…

2,690
NXP USA

2,671
Fuji Electric

2,654
Asml Netherlands…

2,645
Airbus Operations ◀

2,643
Kioxia

2,641
Arm

2,613
Paypal

2,609
Red Hat

2,585

What this shows Airbus holds 2,643 patents at rank #144, 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 #144 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Novatek Microelectronics Corp. 67 United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force 67 Allstate Insurance Company 67 ZF CV Systems Global GmbH 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

ZTE Corporation 14.8 avg Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 14.8 avg Xi'an Zhongxing NEW Software Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC 14.8 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

Airbus Operations Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	319	12.1%
2016	312	11.8%
2017	263	10.0%
2018	205	7.8%
2019	266	10.1%
2020	252	9.5%
2021	206	7.8%
2022	220	8.3%
2023	187	7.1%
2024	207	7.8%
2025partial year	206	7.8%

Which technologies does Airbus Operations Limited patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 1,292

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 1,095

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 803

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 333

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 297

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 291

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 181

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 171

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 119

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 110

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 78

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 77

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 73

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 65

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 60

Top 15 of 282 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#144

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Airbus Operations Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus Operations Limited's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 48.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #144 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Operations Limited against CNH Industrial America LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.8/100 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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