Where does Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation ranks #2,537 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 Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation hold?

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation holds 153 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 96 technology areas.

What is Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's Innovation Score?

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation has an Innovation Score of 59.1 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation focus on?

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 77 patents, ranking #28 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 96 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's recent grant velocity is +94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's patents?

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's patents average 20.4 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 Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation 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

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 153 granted patents across 96 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aurora ranks #2,537 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 153 patents across 96 technology areas.

#2,537
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.1/100): 20.4
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2537 · US Corporation #2,537 · 153 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 153 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,537/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ballogy
CPC-WIDE B64C · 96 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ballogy, 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 Aurora’s 59.1 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 17.4 pts (29%) Velocity 4.4 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 12.3 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dyson Technology · near

59
The Governors of… · near

59
Aurora Flight Sciences · this assignee

59
Mighty Buildings · near

59
Rapid7 · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aurora's Innovation Score is 59.1/100 (top 4% 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 20.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 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.

How Aurora's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation received 99 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (+94% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 4. Lead class B64C accounts for 50.3% of the portfolio across 96 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. (#2,533) and Gogoro, Inc. (#2,541).

Aurora's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation moved from 72 to 48 grants (0.67x 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 #2,263. See the growth leaderboard.

SAE Magnetics (H…

154
Technip France

154
Valeo Embrayages

154
Veniam

154
Ballogy

153
Enanta Pharmaceut…

153
Flex

153
Gogoro

153
Aurora Flight Sci… ◀

153

What this shows Aurora holds 153 patents at rank #2,537, 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 #2,537 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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 B64C (Aeroplanes), Aurora ranks #28 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Rapid7, Inc. 59 Mighty Buildings, Inc. 59 The Governors of the University of Alberta 59 Dyson Technology Limited 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (20.4 here).

Clemson University 20.4 avg Seattle Children's Hospital 20.4 avg Broadcom Corporation 20.4 avg Ipgate AG 20.4 avg

Aurora's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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.

View data table

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	5.2%
2016	4	2.6%
2017	8	5.2%
2018	10	6.5%
2019	21	13.7%
2020	21	13.7%
2021	30	19.6%
2022	24	15.7%
2023	13	8.5%
2024	11	7.2%
2025partial year	3	2.0%

Which technologies does Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 77

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 62

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 62

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 55

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 40

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 22

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 22

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 15

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 13

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 12

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 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 9

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 8

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 8

Top 15 of 96 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

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 50.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #2,537 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation against SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.1/100 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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