Where does Eads Deutschland GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Eads Deutschland GmbH ranks #4,940 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 Eads Deutschland GmbH hold?

Eads Deutschland GmbH holds 70 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 83 technology areas.

What is Eads Deutschland GmbH's Innovation Score?

Eads Deutschland GmbH has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Eads Deutschland GmbH focus on?

Eads Deutschland GmbH's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 16 patents, ranking #94 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 83 CPC subclasses total.

Is Eads Deutschland GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Eads Deutschland GmbH's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Eads Deutschland GmbH's patents?

Eads Deutschland GmbH's patents average 13.8 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 Eads Deutschland 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

Eads Deutschland GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 70 granted patents across 83 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Eads ranks #4,940 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 70 patents across 83 technology areas.

#4,940
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4940 · Foreign Corporation #4,940 · 70 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 70 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,940/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chengdu University…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 83 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chengdu University OF Technology (±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 Eads’s 48.0 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 14.7 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (52%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ethox Chemicals · near

48
SureFire · near

48
AWES ME · near

48
Eads Deutschland · this assignee

48
Merlin Technology · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Eads's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 Eads?

Each dot is one of Eads’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). Eads’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 15.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Eads's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Eads Deutschland GmbH received 1 grants versus 69 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 36 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class B64C accounts for 22.9% of the portfolio across 83 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Chengdu University OF Technology (#4,936) and Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (#4,944).

Chengdu Universit…

70
Closure Systems I…

70
Coldquanta

70
Conviva

70
Everi Payments

70
Fluidigm

70
Fujifilm Dimatix

70
Florida Turbine

70
Eads Deutschland ◀

70

What this shows Eads holds 70 patents at rank #4,940, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Eads

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,940 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Eads, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Eads ranks #94 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Merlin Technology Inc. 48 AWES.ME, Inc. 48 SureFire, LLC 48 Ethox Chemicals, LLC 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC 13.8 avg Fluence Bioengineering, Inc. 13.8 avg Performance Designed Products LLC 13.8 avg Jiangsu Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited 13.8 avg

Eads's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

View data table

Eads Deutschland GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	51.4%
2016	18	25.7%
2017	9	12.9%
2018	6	8.6%
2020	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Eads Deutschland GmbH patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 16

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

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 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 8

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 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 6

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

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 3

F03D - Wind Motors 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

Top 15 of 83 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

Eads Deutschland GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Eads Deutschland GmbH's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 22.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #4,940 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Eads Deutschland GmbH against Chengdu University OF Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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