Where does Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation ranks #1,151 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 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation hold?

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation holds 368 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 124 technology areas.

What is Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's Innovation Score?

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.4 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 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's recent grant velocity is +23% 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 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's patents?

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation's patents average 13.5 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 Gulfstream Aerospace 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

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation focus on?

Gulfstream Aerospace 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 163 patents. Grants appear in 124 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 368 granted patents across 124 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, Gulfstream ranks #1,151 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 368 patents across 124 technology areas.

#1,151
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.4/100): 13.5
avg claims per patent: +23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1151 · US Corporation #1,151 · 368 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 368 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,151/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH KT&G
CPC-WIDE B64D · 124 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: KT&G Corporation (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
IFP Energies Nouvelles · near

61
Nchain Licensing · near

61
Gulfstream Aerospace · this assignee

61
Harbin Institute OF… · near

61
The Penn State… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gulfstream's Innovation Score is 61.4/100 (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.

How Gulfstream's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation received 193 grants versus 157 in 2015–2019 (+23% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 57 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 18. Lead class B64D accounts for 44.3% of the portfolio across 124 subclasses. Volume neighbours: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd. (#1,147) and Yeda Research AND Development Co. Ltd. (#1,155).

Gulfstream's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation moved from 100 to 118 grants (1.18x 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 #817. See the growth leaderboard.

AAC Optics Soluti…

369
GE Video Compress…

369
Mars Incorporated

369
Oakley

369
KT&G

368
St Jude Medical A…

368
Trustees OF Dartm…

368
Yeda Research AND…

368
Gulfstream Aerosp… ◀

368

What this shows Gulfstream holds 368 patents at rank #1,151, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gulfstream

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,151 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gulfstream, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

The Penn State Research Foundation 61 Harbin Institute OF Technology 61 Nchain Licensing AG 61 IFP Energies Nouvelles 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.5 here).

Electrolux Home Products, Inc. 13.5 avg Techtronic Cordless GP 13.5 avg GS Yuasa International Ltd. 13.5 avg Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation 13.5 avg

Gulfstream's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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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Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	4.9%
2016	57	15.5%
2017	27	7.3%
2018	30	8.2%
2019	25	6.8%
2020	30	8.2%
2021	45	12.2%
2022	51	13.9%
2023	39	10.6%
2024	28	7.6%
2025partial year	18	4.9%

Which technologies does Gulfstream Aerospace 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 163

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 99

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 42

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 41

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 35

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 31

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 24

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 21

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 19

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 18

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 17

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 17

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 14

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

Top 15 of 124 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,151

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

61.4 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Gulfstream Aerospace 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), 44.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #1,151 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation against AAC Optics Solutions Pte. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.4/100 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

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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