Where does Centre National d'Études Spatiales rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Centre National d'Études Spatiales ranks #2,986 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 Centre National d'Études Spatiales hold?

Centre National d'Études Spatiales holds 127 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 71 technology areas.

What is Centre National d'Études Spatiales's Innovation Score?

Centre National d'Études Spatiales has an Innovation Score of 53.8 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Centre National d'Études Spatiales's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Centre National d'Études Spatiales's recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Centre National d'Études Spatiales's patents?

Centre National d'Études Spatiales's patents average 13.7 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.

How is the Centre National d'Études Spatiales 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

Centre National d'Études Spatiales

Q: What technology areas does Centre National d'Études Spatiales focus on?

Centre National d'Études Spatiales's top technology area is 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) with 42 patents. Grants appear in 71 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 127 granted patents across 71 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Centre ranks #2,986 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 127 patents across 71 technology areas.

#2,986
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (53.8/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2986 · Foreign Corporation #2,986 · 127 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 127 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,986/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ABB Power Grids…
CPC-WIDE G01S · 71 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Centre National… · this assignee

54
Etablissement… · near

54
Inphi · near

54
Munchkin · near

54
Ventus Engineering · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Centre's Innovation Score is 53.8/100 (top 8% 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.

How Centre's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Centre National d'Études Spatiales received 48 grants versus 75 in 2015–2019 (-36% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 5. Lead class G01S accounts for 33.1% of the portfolio across 71 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG (#2,982) and FDK Corporation (#2,990).

Centre's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Centre National d'Études Spatiales moved from 38 to 22 grants (0.58x 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 #2,496. See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Centre holds 127 patents at rank #2,986, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Centre

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,986 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Centre, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Munchkin, Inc. 54 Inphi Corporation 54 Etablissement Francais DU Sang (EFS) 54 Ventus Engineering GmbH 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.7 here).

Technische Universitaet Dresden 13.7 avg MPI Corporation 13.7 avg West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd. 13.7 avg Deutsches Zentrum FÜR LUFT—UND Raumfahrt E.V. 13.7 avg

Centre's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% 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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Centre National d'Études Spatiales patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	14.2%
2016	19	15.0%
2017	16	12.6%
2018	10	7.9%
2019	12	9.4%
2020	15	11.8%
2021	11	8.7%
2022	12	9.4%
2023	5	3.9%
2024	5	3.9%
2025partial year	4	3.1%

Which technologies does Centre National d'Études Spatiales patent most?

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 42

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 22

H04B - Transmission 16

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 13

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 10

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 7

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 5

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 5

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 4

Top 15 of 71 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,986

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Centre National d'Études Spatiales's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Centre National d'Études Spatiales's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 33.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #2,986 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Centre National d'Études Spatiales against ABB Power Grids Switzerland AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.8/100 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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