Where does Cirrus Design Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cirrus Design Corporation ranks #24,104 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 Cirrus Design Corporation hold?

Cirrus Design Corporation holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Cirrus Design Corporation's Innovation Score?

Cirrus Design Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.1 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cirrus Design Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cirrus Design Corporation's recent grant velocity is +133% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cirrus Design Corporation's patents?

Cirrus Design Corporation's patents average 18.6 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 Cirrus Design Corporation 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

Cirrus Design Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Cirrus Design Corporation focus on?

Cirrus Design Corporation'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 8 patents, ranking #191 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Cirrus ranks #24,104 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 8 technology areas.

#24,104
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.1/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +133%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24104 · US Corporation #24,104 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,104/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chinook Asia
CPC-NARROW B64D · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +133% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chinook Asia LLC (±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 Cirrus’s 43.1 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 8.6 pts (20%) Velocity 13.3 pts (31%) Breadth 10.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cirrus Design · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cirrus's Innovation Score is 43.1/100 (top 29% 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 Cirrus?

Each dot is one of Cirrus’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). Cirrus’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cirrus's grants concentrate

Cirrus Design Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Cirrus sits between Chinook Asia LLC and Clever Devices Ltd..

Cirrus's three-year grant acceleration

Cirrus Design Corporation shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Chinook Asia

11
Chongqing Jinkang…

11
Cibiem

11
Circassia

11
Civilized Cycles…

11
Cleaning Systems

11
Clearwater Holdin…

11
Clever Devices

11
Cirrus Design ◀

11

What this shows Cirrus holds 11 patents at rank #24,136, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cirrus

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,136 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Cirrus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cirrus Design Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	9.1%
2019	2	18.2%
2020	1	9.1%
2022	2	18.2%
2023	2	18.2%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Cirrus Design Corporation patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 8

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 4

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 4

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

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

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 3

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

Top 8 of 8 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

Cirrus Design Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cirrus Design Corporation'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), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #24,104 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cirrus Design Corporation against Chinook Asia LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.1/100 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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