Where does Goodrich Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Goodrich Corporation ranks #276 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 Goodrich Corporation hold?

Goodrich Corporation holds 1,557 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 259 technology areas.

What is Goodrich Corporation's Innovation Score?

Goodrich Corporation has an Innovation Score of 64.3 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 Goodrich Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Goodrich Corporation's recent grant velocity is +37% 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 Goodrich Corporation's patents?

Goodrich Corporation's patents average 14.2 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 Goodrich Corporation 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

Goodrich Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Goodrich Corporation focus on?

Goodrich Corporation'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 558 patents, ranking #7 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 259 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,557 granted patents across 259 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, Goodrich ranks #276 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,557 patents across 259 technology areas.

#276
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.3/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: +37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R276 · US Corporation #276 · 1,557 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.6K grants
TOP-DECILE #276/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Motorola Solutions
CPC-BROAD B64D · 259 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Motorola Solutions, Inc. (±2 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 Goodrich’s 64.3 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 25.4 pts (40%) Velocity 5.4 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Rohr · near

64
Goodrich · this assignee

64
Hunan Brunp… · near

64
Kyocera Document… · near

64
LAT Enterprises · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Goodrich's Innovation Score is 64.3/100 (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 Goodrich?

Each dot is one of Goodrich’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). Goodrich’s own 14.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Goodrich's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Goodrich Corporation received 838 grants versus 613 in 2015–2019 (+37% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 217 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 54. Lead class B64D accounts for 35.8% of the portfolio across 259 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (#272) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (#280).

Goodrich's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Goodrich Corporation moved from 563 to 454 grants (0.81x 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 #1,822. See the growth leaderboard.

Wuhan China Star…

1,572
Meta Platforms

1,569
Acushnet

1,567
Colgate-palmolive

1,565
Goodrich ◀

1,557
Motorola Solutions

1,555
Bose

1,553
Toray Industries

1,543
Palantir

1,534

What this shows Goodrich holds 1,557 patents at rank #276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Goodrich

By rank, the assignees closest to #276 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Goodrich, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Goodrich ranks #7 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. 64 Hunan Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd. 64 Rohr, Inc. 64 LAT Enterprises, Inc. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Life Technologies Corporation 14.2 avg Trading Technologies International, Inc. 14.2 avg Littelfuse, Inc. 14.2 avg The University of Toledo 14.2 avg

Goodrich's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 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 · 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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Goodrich Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	3.5%
2016	88	5.7%
2017	132	8.5%
2018	160	10.3%
2019	179	11.5%
2020	217	13.9%
2021	167	10.7%
2022	159	10.2%
2023	138	8.9%
2024	157	10.1%
2025partial year	106	6.8%

Which technologies does Goodrich Corporation patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 558

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 533

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 309

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 199

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 87

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 86

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 82

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 80

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 79

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 71

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 71

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 69

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 67

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 64

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 63

Top 15 of 259 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

Goodrich Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Goodrich Corporation'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), 35.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #276 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Goodrich Corporation against Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.3/100 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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