Is Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company.

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Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company

Q: Where does Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company ranks #7,237 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Q: How is the Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company 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 PatentsView assignee record - 45 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aurora ranks #7,237 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 45 patents across 40 technology areas.

#7,237
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.9/100): 20.6
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7237 · US Corporation #7,237 · 45 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 45 grants
UPPER-Q #7,237/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adimab
CPC-WIDE B64U · 40 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adimab, LLC (±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 Aurora’s 67.9 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 13.2 pts (19%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 22.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cable Television… · near

68
Aurora Flight… · this assignee

68
Siemens Aktiengesell… · near

68
BlackBerry · near

68
Advanced Semiconduct… · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aurora's Innovation Score is 67.9/100 (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 Aurora?

Each dot is one of Aurora’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). Aurora’s own 20.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aurora's grants concentrate

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 37.8% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (23 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Aurora sits between Aquastar Pool Products, Inc. and Bandwidth Inc..

Aurora's three-year grant acceleration

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company shows 33 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Aquastar Pool Pro…

45
Adimab

45
Apollo Endosurgery

45
Atlas Global

45
Avegant

45
BVW Holding

45
Baltimore Aircoil

45
Bandwidth

45
Aurora Flight Sci… ◀

45

What this shows Aurora holds 45 patents at rank #7,237, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aurora

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,237 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aurora, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Aurora ranks #49 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 68 BlackBerry Limited 68 Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. 68 Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 68

Aurora's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 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 · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	1	2.2%
2021	5	11.1%
2022	3	6.7%
2023	7	15.6%
2024	23	51.1%
2025partial year	6	13.3%

Which technologies does Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 17

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 16

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 16

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 13

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 13

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

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 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

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 3

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 3

Top 15 of 40 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 37.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #7,237 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company against Aquastar Pool Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.9/100 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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