Where does Airbus Operations SAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus Operations SAS ranks #240 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 SAS hold?

Airbus Operations SAS holds 1,734 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 214 technology areas.

What is Airbus Operations SAS's Innovation Score?

Airbus Operations SAS has an Innovation Score of 65.3 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%).

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

Airbus Operations SAS's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 SAS's patents?

Airbus Operations SAS's patents average 11.6 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 SAS 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 SAS

Q: What technology areas does Airbus Operations SAS focus on?

Airbus Operations SAS's top technology area is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft) with 776 patents, ranking #4 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 214 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,734 granted patents across 214 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: B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Airbus ranks #240 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,734 patents across 214 technology areas.

#240
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.3/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R240 · Foreign Corporation #240 · 1,734 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.7K grants
TOP-DECILE #240/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Northwestern…
CPC-BROAD B64D · 214 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.3/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Northwestern University (±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 65.3 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 25.8 pts (40%) Velocity 7.5 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dexcom · near

65
Airbus Operations SAS · this assignee

65
University of… · near

65
Deka Products… · near

65
NTT Docomo · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 65.3/100 (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.

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 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 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 Operations SAS received 719 grants versus 891 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 226 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 126. Lead class B64D accounts for 44.8% of the portfolio across 214 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Continental Automotive GMBH (#236) and THE Johns Hopkins University (#244).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus Operations SAS moved from 411 to 464 grants (1.13x 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 #903. See the growth leaderboard.

Continental Autom…

1,748
Signify Holding B…

1,748
Baker Hughes Hold…

1,746
AT&T Mobility II

1,742
Northwestern Univ…

1,734
Airbus Operations… ◀

1,734
Globus Medical

1,728
Merck Patent

1,728
THE Johns Hopkins…

1,727

What this shows Airbus holds 1,734 patents at rank #240, 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 #240 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

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 B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Airbus ranks #4 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

University of Washington 65 Dexcom, Inc. 65 Deka Products Limited Parternship 65 NTT Docomo, Inc. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Olympus Winter & IBE GMBH 11.6 avg Renault S.A.S. 11.6 avg Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. 11.6 avg Safran 11.7 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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 SAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	226	13.0%
2016	183	10.6%
2017	186	10.7%
2018	140	8.1%
2019	156	9.0%
2020	126	7.3%
2021	129	7.4%
2022	168	9.7%
2023	159	9.2%
2024	137	7.9%
2025partial year	124	7.2%

Which technologies does Airbus Operations SAS patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 776

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 586

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 331

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 216

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 210

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 207

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 145

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 139

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 136

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 135

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 123

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 102

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 97

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 91

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 90

Top 15 of 214 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

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Airbus Operations SAS's lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 44.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #240 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus Operations SAS against Continental Automotive GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.3/100 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.

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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

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