Where does Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC ranks #6,985 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 Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC hold?

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC holds 47 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's Innovation Score?

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 40.7 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC focus on?

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's top technology area is G08G (Traffic Control Systems) with 32 patents, ranking #92 of 1,183 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Is Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's recent grant velocity is -4% 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 Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's patents?

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's patents average 16.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC

Q: How is the Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 47 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G08G (Traffic Control Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Aviation ranks #6,985 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 47 patents across 17 technology areas.

#6,985
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.7/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -4%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6985 · US Corporation #6,985 · 47 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 47 grants
UPPER-Q #6,985/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aarhus Universitet
CPC-FOCUS G08G · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -4% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aarhus Universitet (±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 Aviation’s 40.7 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 13.4 pts (33%) Velocity 2.8 pts (7%) Breadth 14.6 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sigray · near

41
Agri-Cover · near

41
Aviation Communicati… · this assignee

41
Colhurst Concepts · near

41
SomaLogic · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Aviation's Innovation Score is 40.7/100 (top 35% 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 Aviation?

Each dot is one of Aviation’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). Aviation’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Aviation's grants concentrate

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 68.1% of grants classified under G08G (Traffic Control Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Aviation sits between Aarhus Universitet and Beijing BOE Multimedia Technology Co., Ltd..

Aviation's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC moved from 24 to 10 grants (0.42x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Aarhus Universitet

47
Amsa

47
Aquifi

47
Avenu Medical

47
Avidity Bioscienc…

47
Ascion

47
B Braun Medical

47
Beijing BOE Multi…

47
Aviation Communic… ◀

47

What this shows Aviation holds 47 patents at rank #6,984, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Aviation

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,984 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08G (Traffic Control Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Aviation, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08G (Traffic Control Systems), Aviation ranks #92 of 1,183 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

SomaLogic, Inc. 41 Agri-Cover, Inc. 41 Colhurst Concepts, LLC 41 Sigray, Inc. 41

Aviation's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	8.5%
2016	4	8.5%
2017	3	6.4%
2018	2	4.3%
2019	11	23.4%
2020	6	12.8%
2021	7	14.9%
2022	6	12.8%
2023	3	6.4%
2024	1	2.1%

Which technologies does Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC patent most?

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 32

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 26

H04B - Transmission 12

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

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 10

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 8

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

G01W - Meteorology 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC's lead technology class is G08G (Traffic Control Systems), 68.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08G
Ranked #6,985 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLC against Aarhus Universitet, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.7/100 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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