Where does American Airlines, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), American Airlines, Inc. ranks #3,797 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 American Airlines, Inc. hold?

American Airlines, Inc. holds 95 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is American Airlines, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

American Airlines, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.6 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is American Airlines, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

American Airlines, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +74% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for American Airlines, Inc.'s patents?

American Airlines, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 American Airlines, Inc. 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

American Airlines, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does American Airlines, Inc. focus on?

American Airlines, Inc.'s top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 65 patents. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 95 granted patents across 28 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, American ranks #3,797 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 95 patents across 28 technology areas.

#3,797
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.6/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: +74%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3797 · US Corporation #3,797 · 95 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 95 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,797/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Abbott Molecular
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +74% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Abbott Molecular 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hexcel Composites · near

54
American Airlines · this assignee

54
OpenTV · near

54
Florida A&M University · near

54
Raytrx · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows American's Innovation Score is 53.6/100 (top 9% 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.

Where American's grants concentrate

American Airlines, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 68.4% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (14 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, American sits between VeriFone, Inc. and Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC.

American's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, American Airlines, Inc. moved from 29 to 37 grants (1.28x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Verifone

96
Wi-lan

96
Wix com

96
Zimmer Biomet Spi…

96
Abbott Molecular

95
Beijing Roborock…

95
Cabot Microelectr…

95
Comcast Cable Com…

95
American Airlines ◀

95

What this shows American holds 95 patents at rank #3,796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near American

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,796 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for American, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

OpenTV, Inc. 54 Hexcel Composites Limited 54 Florida A&M University 54 Raytrx, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Workiva Inc. 17.7 avg Karl Storz Imaging, Inc. 17.7 avg Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 17.7 avg Chemtreat, Inc. 17.7 avg

American's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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American Airlines, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	4.2%
2016	4	4.2%
2017	8	8.4%
2018	3	3.2%
2019	12	12.6%
2020	7	7.4%
2021	10	10.5%
2022	10	10.5%
2023	14	14.7%
2024	13	13.7%
2025partial year	10	10.5%

Which technologies does American Airlines, Inc. patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 65

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 26

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 13

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 12

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 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

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 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 4

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 4

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 4

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,797

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.6 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

American Airlines, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

American Airlines, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 68.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #3,797 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare American Airlines, Inc. against VeriFone, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.6/100 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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