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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bell Textron Inc. ranks #4,278 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 Textron Inc. hold?

Bell Textron Inc. holds 83 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2024, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Bell Textron Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bell Textron Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.7 out of 100 (top 20% 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 Textron Inc. focus on?

Bell Textron Inc.'s top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 59 patents, ranking #39 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

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

Bell Textron Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +195% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Bell Textron Inc.'s patents?

Bell Textron Inc.'s patents average 15.5 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 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 Textron Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 83 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2024. 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bell ranks #4,278 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 83 patents across 38 technology areas.

#4,278
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: +195%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4278 · US Corporation #4,278 · 83 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 83 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,278/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisin Technical…
CPC-FOCUS B64C · 38 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +195% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisin Technical Center of America, 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 Bell’s 46.7 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 15.3 pts (33%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 21.8 pts (47%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bell Textron · this assignee

47
C/HCA · near

47
Master Lock · near

47
Senvion SE · near

47
Universitat… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bell's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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 15.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bell's grants concentrate

Bell Textron Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 71.1% of grants classified under B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (35 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Bell sits between Aisin Technical Center of America, Inc. and Cipla Limited.

Bell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bell Textron Inc. moved from 79 to 4 grants (0.05x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Aisin Technical C…

83
Apical

83
Beiersdorf

83
Beijing Research…

83
Benq Materials

83
Brien Holden Visi…

83
Change Healthcare…

83
Cipla

83
Bell Textron ◀

83

What this shows Bell holds 83 patents at rank #4,278, 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 #4,278 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 #39 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Master Lock Company LLC 47 Senvion SE 47 C/HCA, Inc. 47 Universitat AUTÓNOMA DE Barcelona 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

HeartWare, Inc. 15.5 avg Kantatsu Co., Ltd 15.5 avg Pierre Fabre MÉDICAMENT 15.5 avg Discma AG 15.5 avg

Bell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2024

Grants by year

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

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Bell Textron Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	21	25.3%
2020	23	27.7%
2021	35	42.2%
2022	2	2.4%
2023	1	1.2%
2024	1	1.2%

Which technologies does Bell Textron Inc. patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 59

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 25

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 9

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

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 5

F16H - Gearing 3

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 3

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Top 15 of 38 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 Textron Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bell Textron Inc.'s lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 71.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #4,278 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bell Textron Inc. against Aisin Technical Center of America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.