Where does Etihad Airways rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Etihad Airways ranks #28,708 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 Etihad Airways hold?

Etihad Airways holds 9 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 0 technology areas.

What is Etihad Airways's Innovation Score?

Etihad Airways has an Innovation Score of 8.6 out of 100 (1st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Etihad Airways focus on?

Etihad Airways holds grants across 0 technology areas classified under the Cooperative Patent Classification system.

Is Etihad Airways's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Etihad Airways's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Etihad Airways's patents?

Etihad Airways's patents average 1.0 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 Etihad Airways 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

Etihad Airways

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 9 granted patents across 0 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength.

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Etihad ranks #28,708 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 9 patents across 0 technology areas.

#28,708
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 1st percentile
by Innovation Score (8.6/100): 1.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R28708 · Foreign Corporation #28,708 · 9 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-UNK · INNOV-LOW · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 9 grants
MID-PACK #28,708/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Epiroc Drilling…
CPC-UNK CPC blank
INNOV-LOW 8.6/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Epiroc Drilling Solutions, 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 Etihad’s 8.6 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 8.0 pts (93%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 0.0 pts (0%) Claim depth 0.6 pts (7%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Etihad Airways · this assignee

9
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Etihad's Innovation Score is 8.6/100 (1st percentile 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 Etihad?

Each dot is one of Etihad’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). Etihad’s own 1.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Etihad's grants concentrate

Etihad Airways is a focused PatentsView assignee: 0 CPC subclasses . Peak complete grant year is 2015 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Etihad sits between Epiroc Drilling Solutions, LLC and EverBlock Systems LLC.

Epiroc Drilling S…

9
Epona

9
Estis Compression

9
Estwing Manufactu…

9
Etiometry

9
Eucure (Beijing)…

9
Eulitha

9
Everblock Systems

9
Etihad Airways ◀

9

What this shows Etihad holds 9 patents at rank #28,710, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Etihad

By rank, the assignees closest to #28,710 in granted patent volume.

Etihad's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

9 1st percentile higher than 1% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Etihad Airways patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	77.8%
2016	2	22.2%

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Etihad Airways's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ranked #28,708 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Etihad Airways against Epiroc Drilling Solutions, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 8.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.