Where does Diehl Aerospace GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Diehl Aerospace GmbH ranks #5,434 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 Diehl Aerospace GmbH hold?

Diehl Aerospace GmbH holds 63 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Diehl Aerospace GmbH's Innovation Score?

Diehl Aerospace GmbH has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Diehl Aerospace GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Diehl Aerospace GmbH's recent grant velocity is -38% 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 Diehl Aerospace GmbH's patents?

Diehl Aerospace GmbH's patents average 13.9 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 Diehl Aerospace GmbH 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

Diehl Aerospace GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Diehl Aerospace GmbH focus on?

Diehl Aerospace GmbH'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 32 patents, ranking #69 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 63 granted patents across 55 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: 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, Diehl ranks #5,434 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 63 patents across 55 technology areas.

#5,434
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 13.9
avg claims per patent: -38%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5434 · Foreign Corporation #5,434 · 63 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 63 grants
UPPER-Q #5,434/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Brewer Science
CPC-WIDE B64D · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -38% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Brewer Science, 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 Diehl’s 50.5 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 14.4 pts (29%) Velocity 2.8 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (50%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
China Unionpay · near

51
Diehl Aerospace · this assignee

51
Face International… · near

51
Heptagon Micro… · near

51
Tata Steel · near

51
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Diehl's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Diehl?

Each dot is one of Diehl’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). Diehl’s own 13.9 claims/patent is at or below the 16.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Diehl's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Diehl Aerospace GmbH received 24 grants versus 39 in 2015–2019 (-38% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 1. Lead class B64D accounts for 50.8% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Brewer Science, Inc. (#5,430) and Flosfia Inc. (#5,438).

Diehl's three-year grant acceleration

Diehl Aerospace GmbH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 19 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.

Brewer Science

63
Clearpath Robotics

63
Crompton Technolo…

63
Century Technolog…

63
Displaylink (UK)

63
Envisics

63
Exergyn

63
Flosfia

63
Diehl Aerospace ◀

63

What this shows Diehl holds 63 patents at rank #5,434, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Diehl

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,434 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Diehl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Diehl ranks #69 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (51 here).

Face International Corporaton 51 Heptagon Micro Optics Pte. Ltd. 51 China Unionpay Co., Ltd. 51 Tata Steel Limited 51

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.9 here).

Kraft Foods R & D, Inc. 13.9 avg KPR U.S., LLC 13.9 avg UNIVERSITÉ Paris DIDEROT—PARIS 7 13.9 avg Xiaomi 13.9 avg

Diehl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Diehl Aerospace GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	12.7%
2016	17	27.0%
2017	2	3.2%
2018	9	14.3%
2019	3	4.8%
2020	11	17.5%
2021	5	7.9%
2022	5	7.9%
2023	2	3.2%
2024	1	1.6%

Which technologies does Diehl Aerospace GmbH patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 32

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 15

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 12

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 10

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 9

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 5

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 5

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 5

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 4

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 3

Top 15 of 55 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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Diehl Aerospace GmbH'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), 50.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #5,434 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Diehl Aerospace GmbH against Brewer Science, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

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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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