Where does Aireon LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aireon LLC ranks #20,701 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 Aireon LLC hold?

Aireon LLC holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Aireon LLC's Innovation Score?

Aireon LLC has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aireon LLC focus on?

Aireon LLC's top technology area is H04B (Transmission) with 9 patents, ranking #870 of 3,909 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aireon LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aireon LLC's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aireon LLC's patents?

Aireon LLC's patents average 19.8 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 Aireon LLC 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 US Corporation

Aireon LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: H04B (Transmission).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aireon ranks #20,701 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 8 technology areas.

#20,701
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20701 · US Corporation #20,701 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,701/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aerospace Informatio…
CPC-NARROW H04B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy OF Sciences (±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 Aireon’s 33.8 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 9.1 pts (27%) Velocity 2.9 pts (9%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aireon · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aireon's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (46th percentile 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 Aireon?

Each dot is one of Aireon’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). Aireon’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Aireon vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Aireon's grants concentrate

Aireon LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 69.2% of grants classified under H04B (Transmission). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Aireon sits between Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy OF Sciences and AK Steel Properties, Inc..

Aireon's three-year grant acceleration

Aireon LLC shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Aerospace Informa…

13
Aesc Japan

13
Agenebio

13
Agerpoint

13
Airway Medix

13
Aisin Kako

13
AK Globaltech

13
AK Steel Properti…

13
Aireon ◀

13

What this shows Aireon holds 13 patents at rank #20,689, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aireon

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,689 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04B (Transmission)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Aireon's primary technology class.

Aireon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aireon LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	15.4%
2019	2	15.4%
2020	4	30.8%
2021	1	7.7%
2022	1	7.7%
2023	1	7.7%
2024	1	7.7%
2025partial year	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Aireon LLC patent most?

H04B - Transmission 9

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 7

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H04K - Secret COMMUNICATION; Jamming OF Communication 2

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Aireon LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aireon LLC's lead technology class is H04B (Transmission), 69.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04B
Ranked #20,701 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aireon LLC against Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy OF Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.