Where does General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. ranks #10,624 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. hold?

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. holds 29 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 64.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s patents?

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s patents average 21.9 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. focus on?

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'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 10 patents, ranking #157 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, 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 PatentsView assignee record - 29 granted patents across 31 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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, General ranks #10,624 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 29 patents across 31 technology areas.

#10,624
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.5/100): 21.9
avg claims per patent: +1150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10624 · US Corporation #10,624 · 29 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 29 grants
UPPER-Q #10,624/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH GiMer Medical
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 31 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: GiMer Medical Company Limited (±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 General’s 64.5 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 11.7 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 19.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 13.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
San Diego State… · near

65
Trinamix · near

65
Bose · near

65
General Atomics… · this assignee

65
The Brigham and… · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows General's Innovation Score is 64.5/100 (top 2% 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 General?

Each dot is one of General’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). General’s own 21.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where General's grants concentrate

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 34.5% of grants classified under B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, General sits between Graff Breeding A/S and Groem Brothers Aviation, Inc..

General's three-year grant acceleration

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Graff Breeding A/S

29
Grst International

29
GSI Helmholtzzent…

29
Gymworld

29
Gimer Medical

29
Goss Internationa…

29
Grendene

29
Groem Brothers Av…

29
General Atomics A… ◀

29

What this shows General holds 29 patents at rank #10,630, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near General

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,630 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for General, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), General ranks #157 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. 65 Bose Corporation 65 San Diego State University (SDSU) Foundation 65 Trinamix GMBH 65

General's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.4%
2018	1	3.4%
2020	1	3.4%
2021	3	10.3%
2022	7	24.1%
2023	7	24.1%
2024	7	24.1%
2025partial year	2	6.9%

Which technologies does General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 10

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 7

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 5

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 5

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 4

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 4

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 4

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

Top 15 of 31 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

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'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), 34.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #10,624 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. against Graff Breeding A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.5/100 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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