Where does Firefly Aerospace Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Firefly Aerospace Inc. ranks #35,320 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 Firefly Aerospace Inc. hold?

Firefly Aerospace Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2023, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Firefly Aerospace Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.1 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Firefly Aerospace Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s patents?

Firefly Aerospace Inc.'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 Firefly Aerospace Inc. 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

Firefly Aerospace Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Firefly Aerospace Inc. focus on?

Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 7 patents, ranking #170 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 6 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2023. 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Firefly ranks #35,320 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 6 technology areas.

#35,320
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.1/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35320 · US Corporation #35,320 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,320/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fhoosh
CPC-NARROW F05D · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2023 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fhoosh, 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 Firefly’s 44.1 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 7.2 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (45%) Breadth 8.7 pts (20%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Firefly Aerospace · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Firefly's Innovation Score is 44.1/100 (top 26% 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 Firefly?

Each dot is one of Firefly’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). Firefly’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Firefly's grants concentrate

Firefly Aerospace Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Firefly sits between Fhoosh, Inc. and Five9, Inc..

Firefly's three-year grant acceleration

Firefly Aerospace Inc. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Fhoosh

7
Fil-tec Holdings

7
Fine Chemical

7
Finell

7
First Institute O…

7
Fits Holding B V

7
Fitson Singapore…

7
Five9

7
Firefly Aerospace ◀

7

What this shows Firefly holds 7 patents at rank #35,294, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Firefly

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,294 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Firefly's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Firefly Aerospace Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	14.3%
2022	3	42.9%
2023	3	42.9%

Which technologies does Firefly Aerospace Inc. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 7

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 7

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 4

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

F23L - Supplying AIR OR Non-combustible Liquids OR Gases TO Combustion Apparatus IN General ; Valves OR Dampers Specially Adapted FOR Controlling AIR Supply OR Draught IN Combustion Apparatus ; Inducing Draught IN Combustion APPARATUS; Tops FOR Chimneys OR Ventilating SHAFTS; Terminals FOR Flues 1

Top 6 of 6 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #35,320 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Firefly Aerospace Inc. against Fhoosh, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.1/100 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

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.