Where does GE Aviation Systems Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GE Aviation Systems Limited ranks #754 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 GE Aviation Systems Limited hold?

GE Aviation Systems Limited holds 607 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 136 technology areas.

What is GE Aviation Systems Limited's Innovation Score?

GE Aviation Systems Limited has an Innovation Score of 61.9 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GE Aviation Systems Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GE Aviation Systems Limited's recent grant velocity is +41% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for GE Aviation Systems Limited's patents?

GE Aviation Systems Limited's patents average 16.9 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 GE Aviation Systems Limited 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

GE Aviation Systems Limited

Q: What technology areas does GE Aviation Systems Limited focus on?

GE Aviation Systems Limited'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 208 patents, ranking #17 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 136 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 607 granted patents across 136 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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, GE ranks #754 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 607 patents across 136 technology areas.

#754
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.9/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R754 · Foreign Corporation #754 · 607 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 607 grants
TOP-DECILE #754/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Essilor International
CPC-WIDE B64D · 136 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Essilor International (±1 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 GE’s 61.9 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 22.1 pts (36%) Velocity 4.6 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GE Aviation Systems · this assignee

62
Guandong Ocean… · near

62
ObjectVideo Labs · near

62
Rakuten Mobile · near

62
The United States… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GE's Innovation Score is 61.9/100 (top 3% 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 GE?

Each dot is one of GE’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). GE’s own 16.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How GE's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, GE Aviation Systems Limited received 339 grants versus 240 in 2015–2019 (+41% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 92 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 28. Lead class B64D accounts for 34.3% of the portfolio across 136 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. (#750) and Parker-Hannifin Corporation (#758).

GE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, GE Aviation Systems Limited moved from 249 to 172 grants (0.69x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,182. See the growth leaderboard.

Roche Diabetes Ca…

610
SK Innovation

610
Oki Data

609
University of Uta…

608
GE Aviation Syste… ◀

607
Essilor Internati…

606
Sysmex

606
Carl Zeiss Micros…

605
Parker-hannifin

605

What this shows GE holds 607 patents at rank #754, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GE

By rank, the assignees closest to #754 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), GE ranks #17 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army 62 Rakuten Mobile, Inc. 62 ObjectVideo Labs, LLC 62 Guandong Ocean University 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. 16.9 avg University of Kansas 16.9 avg HiDeep Inc. 16.9 avg Given Imaging Ltd. 16.9 avg

GE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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GE Aviation Systems Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	28	4.6%
2016	35	5.8%
2017	39	6.4%
2018	56	9.2%
2019	82	13.5%
2020	92	15.2%
2021	75	12.4%
2022	64	10.5%
2023	64	10.5%
2024	44	7.2%
2025partial year	28	4.6%

Which technologies does GE Aviation Systems Limited patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 208

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 97

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 92

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 81

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 68

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 67

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 64

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 53

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 53

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 53

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 50

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 48

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 39

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 35

H04B - Transmission 33

Top 15 of 136 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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GE Aviation Systems Limited'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), 34.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #754 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GE Aviation Systems Limited against Roche Diabetes Care, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.9/100 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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