Where does Airbus rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Airbus ranks #8,154 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 hold?

Airbus holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 53 technology areas.

What is Airbus's Innovation Score?

Airbus has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Airbus's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Airbus's recent grant velocity is -82% 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's patents?

Airbus's patents average 12.9 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 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

Q: What technology areas does Airbus focus on?

Airbus'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 11 patents, ranking #143 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 53 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 53 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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 #8,154 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 53 technology areas.

#8,154
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 12.9
avg claims per patent: -82%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8154 · Foreign Corporation #8,154 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,154/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AIC
CPC-WIDE B64D · 53 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -82% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AIC 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 46.0 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 12.7 pts (28%) Velocity 0.5 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (54%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Airbus · this assignee

46
Albea Services · near

46
Axogen · near

46
Nuovo Pignone SPA · near

46
Wyatt Technology · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Airbus's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 12.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 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 received 6 grants versus 33 in 2015–2019 (-82% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 10 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 1. Lead class B64D accounts for 28.2% of the portfolio across 53 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Zygo Corporation (#8,149) and Aura Home, Inc. (#8,157).

Airbus's three-year grant acceleration

Airbus shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Zygo

40
iottie

40
nchain Holdings

40
AIC

39
Aisin Takaoka

39
Asahi Yukizai

39
Atomic Energy OF…

39
Aura Home

39
Airbus ◀

39

What this shows Airbus holds 39 patents at rank #8,153, 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 #8,153 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 #143 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Axogen Corporation 46 Nuovo Pignone SPA 46 Wyatt Technology, LLC 46 Albea Services 46

Airbus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	25.6%
2016	3	7.7%
2017	5	12.8%
2018	7	17.9%
2019	8	20.5%
2020	4	10.3%
2021	1	2.6%
2022	1	2.6%

Which technologies does Airbus patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 11

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 10

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 7

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 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

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 4

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

Top 15 of 53 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 patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Airbus'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), 28.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #8,154 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Airbus against Zygo Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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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