Where does GKN Aerospace Services Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), GKN Aerospace Services Limited ranks #11,260 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 GKN Aerospace Services Limited hold?

GKN Aerospace Services Limited holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is GKN Aerospace Services Limited's Innovation Score?

GKN Aerospace Services Limited has an Innovation Score of 55.4 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is GKN Aerospace Services Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

GKN Aerospace Services Limited's recent grant velocity is +36% 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 GKN Aerospace Services Limited's patents?

GKN Aerospace Services Limited's patents average 15.8 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 GKN Aerospace Services 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

GKN Aerospace Services Limited

Q: What technology areas does GKN Aerospace Services Limited focus on?

GKN Aerospace Services 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 13 patents, ranking #122 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 27 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, GKN ranks #11,260 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 27 technology areas.

#11,260
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.4/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11260 · Foreign Corporation #11,260 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,260/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Futaijing Precision…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd. (±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 GKN’s 55.4 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 11.5 pts (21%) Velocity 16.0 pts (29%) Breadth 18.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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University OF… · near

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Access TO Advanced… · near

55
GKN Aerospace Services · this assignee

55
The Industry &… · near

55
The Lubrizol · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows GKN's Innovation Score is 55.4/100 (top 7% 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 GKN?

Each dot is one of GKN’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). GKN’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where GKN's grants concentrate

GKN Aerospace Services Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 48.1% 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 2016 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, GKN sits between Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd. and GTJ Ventures, LLC.

GKN's three-year grant acceleration

GKN Aerospace Services Limited shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Futaijing Precisi…

27
GD Energy Products

27
Georg UTZ Holding

27
Geosat Aerospace…

27
Gleason-pfauter M…

27
Globe Electric

27
Grifols Worldwide…

27
GTJ Ventures

27
GKN Aerospace Ser… ◀

27

What this shows GKN holds 27 patents at rank #11,256, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near GKN

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,256 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for GKN, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), GKN ranks #122 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University (IAC) 55 Access TO Advanced Health Institute 55 The Lubrizol Corporation 55 University OF Copenhagen 55

GKN's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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GKN Aerospace Services Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	11.1%
2016	5	18.5%
2017	1	3.7%
2019	2	7.4%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	5	18.5%
2023	3	11.1%
2024	4	14.8%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does GKN Aerospace Services 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 13

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 10

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 9

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 5

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 4

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

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 2

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 2

Top 15 of 27 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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GKN Aerospace Services 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), 48.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #11,260 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare GKN Aerospace Services Limited against Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.4/100 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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