Where does Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. ranks #740 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 Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. hold?

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. holds 616 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 150 technology areas.

What is Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. focus on?

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 466 patents, ranking #6 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 150 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -61% 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 Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s patents?

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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 Bell Helicopter Textron 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

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 616 granted patents across 150 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, Bell ranks #740 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 616 patents across 150 technology areas.

#740
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R740 · US Corporation #740 · 616 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 616 grants
TOP-DECILE #740/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Suzuki Motor
CPC-WIDE B64C · 150 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Suzuki Motor Corporation (±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 Bell’s 57.5 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 22.2 pts (39%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bell Helicopter… · this assignee

57
Fujikin Incorporated · near

57
General Mills · near

57
Purdue Pharma · near

57
Safran Helicopter… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bell's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Bell?

Each dot is one of Bell’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). Bell’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Bell's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. received 171 grants versus 444 in 2015–2019 (-61% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 146 grants and bottomed in 2021 at 54. Lead class B64C accounts for 75.6% of the portfolio across 150 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. (#736) and Dexerials Corporation (#744).

Hitachi Kokusai E…

618
Semes

618
Institut National…

617
Invensense

617
Suzuki Motor

616
Uchicago Argonne

616
Bell Helicopter T… ◀

616
Fresenius Medical…

615
Dexerials

614

What this shows Bell holds 616 patents at rank #740, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bell

By rank, the assignees closest to #740 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Bell ranks #6 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Purdue Pharma L.P. 57 General Mills, Inc. 57 Fujikin Incorporated 57 Safran Helicopter Engines 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 17.1 avg Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. 17.1 avg Nordson Corporation 17.1 avg DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. 17.1 avg

Bell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	66	10.7%
2016	59	9.6%
2017	86	14.0%
2018	87	14.1%
2019	146	23.7%
2020	117	19.0%
2021	54	8.8%
2025partial year	1	0.2%

Which technologies does Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 466

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 204

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 83

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 81

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 60

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 57

F16H - Gearing 51

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 46

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 44

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 39

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 38

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 32

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 28

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 25

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 24

Top 15 of 150 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

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.'s lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 75.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #740 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. against Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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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