Where does Bombardier Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bombardier Inc. ranks #1,551 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 Bombardier Inc. hold?

Bombardier Inc. holds 267 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 96 technology areas.

What is Bombardier Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bombardier Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.5 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Bombardier Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +70% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

Bombardier Inc.'s patents average 16.9 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 Bombardier 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 Foreign Corporation

Bombardier Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bombardier Inc. focus on?

Bombardier 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 148 patents, ranking #27 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 96 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 267 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: 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, Bombardier ranks #1,551 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 267 patents across 96 technology areas.

#1,551
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.5/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1551 · Foreign Corporation #1,551 · 267 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 267 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,551/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Azbil
CPC-WIDE B64D · 96 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Azbil 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 Bombardier’s 61.5 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 19.3 pts (31%) Velocity 7.0 pts (11%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Autel Robotics · near

61
Avaya · near

61
Bombardier · this assignee

61
Dspace · near

61
Lanto · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bombardier's Innovation Score is 61.5/100 (top 3% 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 Bombardier?

Each dot is one of Bombardier’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). Bombardier’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Bombardier's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Bombardier Inc. received 160 grants versus 94 in 2015–2019 (+70% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 42 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 5. Lead class B64D accounts for 55.4% of the portfolio across 96 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Infosys Limited (#1,547) and S-Printing Solution Co., Ltd. (#1,555).

Bombardier's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bombardier Inc. moved from 97 to 102 grants (1.05x 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 #1,059. See the growth leaderboard.

Infosys

268
Kepler Computing

268
University of Sci…

268
Azbil

267
Fujikin Incorpora…

267
Fujitsu TEN

267
Ignis Innovation

267
S-printing Soluti…

267
Bombardier ◀

267

What this shows Bombardier holds 267 patents at rank #1,551, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bombardier

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,551 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bombardier, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Bombardier ranks #27 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Autel Robotics Co., Ltd. 61 Avaya Inc. 61 Dspace GMBH 61 Lanto Electronic Limited 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Mitel Networks Corporation 16.9 avg PDF Solutions, Inc. 16.9 avg Technische UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN 16.9 avg Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. 16.9 avg

Bombardier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Bombardier Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	2.2%
2016	5	1.9%
2017	24	9.0%
2018	20	7.5%
2019	39	14.6%
2020	28	10.5%
2021	30	11.2%
2022	42	15.7%
2023	42	15.7%
2024	18	6.7%
2025partial year	13	4.9%

Which technologies does Bombardier 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 148

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 108

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 56

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 22

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 20

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 20

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 12

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 12

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 11

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 11

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 10

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

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 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

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

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Bombardier 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), 55.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #1,551 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bombardier Inc. against Infosys Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.5/100 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.

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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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