Where does Airbus (S.A.S.) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus (S.A.S.) ranks #1,122 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 (S.A.S.) hold?

Airbus (S.A.S.) holds 377 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 162 technology areas.

What is Airbus (S.A.S.)'s Innovation Score?

Airbus (S.A.S.) has an Innovation Score of 62.2 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%).

Is Airbus (S.A.S.)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus (S.A.S.)'s recent grant velocity is +38% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Airbus (S.A.S.)'s patents?

Airbus (S.A.S.)'s patents average 12.8 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 (S.A.S.) 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 (S.A.S.)

Q: What technology areas does Airbus (S.A.S.) focus on?

Airbus (S.A.S.)'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 154 patents, ranking #25 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 162 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 377 granted patents across 162 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 #1,122 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 377 patents across 162 technology areas.

#1,122
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.2/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: +38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1122 · Foreign Corporation #1,122 · 377 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 377 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,122/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chiun Mai Communicat…
CPC-WIDE B64D · 162 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, 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 62.2 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 20.5 pts (33%) Velocity 9.0 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Brigham Young… · near

62
Airbus (S ) · this assignee

62
Black & Decker · near

62
Alcatel Lucent · near

62
US Synthetic · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 62.2/100 (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 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 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 (S.A.S.) received 192 grants versus 139 in 2015–2019 (+38% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 47 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 17. Lead class B64D accounts for 40.8% of the portfolio across 162 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. (#1,118) and Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd (#1,126).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Airbus (S.A.S.) moved from 96 to 130 grants (1.35x 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 #574. See the growth leaderboard.

Emerson Climate

379
Nuctech

379
Siliconware Preci…

379
Sensormatic

378
Chiun Mai Communi…

377
Drexel University

377
Sakai Display Pro…

377
Airbus (S ) ◀

377
Tyco

376

What this shows Airbus holds 377 patents at rank #1,122, 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 #1,122 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 #25 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Black & Decker Inc. 62 US Synthetic Corporation 62 Alcatel Lucent 62 Brigham Young University 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.8 here).

Lextar Electronics Corporation 12.8 avg Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg Kyung Chang Industrial Co., Ltd. 12.8 avg thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH 12.8 avg

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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 (S.A.S.) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	17	4.5%
2016	22	5.8%
2017	35	9.3%
2018	31	8.2%
2019	34	9.0%
2020	33	8.8%
2021	29	7.7%
2022	40	10.6%
2023	43	11.4%
2024	47	12.5%
2025partial year	46	12.2%

Which technologies does Airbus (S.A.S.) patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 154

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 95

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 69

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 50

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 34

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 23

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 21

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 21

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 20

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 20

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 17

H04B - Transmission 17

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 16

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

Top 15 of 162 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 (S.A.S.)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus (S.A.S.)'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), 40.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #1,122 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus (S.A.S.) against Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.2/100 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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