Where does B/E Aerospace, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), B/E Aerospace, Inc. ranks #563 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 B/E Aerospace, Inc. hold?

B/E Aerospace, Inc. holds 801 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 167 technology areas.

What is B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

B/E Aerospace, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +51% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s patents?

B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s patents average 13.3 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 B/E Aerospace, 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

B/E Aerospace, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does B/E Aerospace, Inc. focus on?

B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s top technology area is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft) with 644 patents, ranking #5 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 167 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 801 granted patents across 167 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: B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, B/e ranks #563 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 801 patents across 167 technology areas.

#563
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.3/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: +51%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R563 · US Corporation #563 · 801 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 801 grants
TOP-DECILE #563/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fortinet
CPC-WIDE B64D · 167 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +51% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fortinet, 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 B/e’s 65.3 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 23.1 pts (35%) Velocity 9.3 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hoffmann-La Roche · near

65
B/E Aerospace · this assignee

65
Booz Allen Hamilton · near

65
Divergent · near

65
Sarcos · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows B/e's Innovation Score is 65.3/100 (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 B/e?

Each dot is one of B/e’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). B/e’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How B/e's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, B/E Aerospace, Inc. received 427 grants versus 282 in 2015–2019 (+51% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 109 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 45. Lead class B64D accounts for 80.4% of the portfolio across 167 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mandom Corporation (#559) and Alcon Inc. (#567).

B/e's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, B/E Aerospace, Inc. moved from 207 to 288 grants (1.39x 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 #529. See the growth leaderboard.

Mandom

803
Rohm and Haas

803
Ut-battelle

803
Hefei BOE Optoele…

802
Fortinet

801
B/E Aerospace ◀

801
Resmed Pty

800
Wipro

794
Alcon

793

What this shows B/E holds 801 patents at rank #563, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near B/E

By rank, the assignees closest to #563 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in B/E's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for B/E, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), B/E ranks #5 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. 65 Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 65 Divergent Technologies, Inc. 65 Sarcos Corp. 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

MANN+HUMMEL GmbH 13.3 avg Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. 13.3 avg Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. 13.3 avg Achates Power, Inc. 13.3 avg

B/e's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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 · 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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B/E Aerospace, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	48	6.0%
2016	58	7.2%
2017	45	5.6%
2018	63	7.9%
2019	68	8.5%
2020	62	7.7%
2021	77	9.6%
2022	90	11.2%
2023	89	11.1%
2024	109	13.6%
2025partial year	92	11.5%

Which technologies does B/E Aerospace, Inc. patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 644

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 148

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 120

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 46

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 38

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 38

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 37

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 36

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 34

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 31

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 30

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 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 25

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 24

Top 15 of 167 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

B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

B/E Aerospace, Inc.'s lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 80.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #563 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare B/E Aerospace, Inc. against Mandom Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.3/100 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

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