Where does Joby Aero, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Joby Aero, Inc. ranks #2,772 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 Joby Aero, Inc. hold?

Joby Aero, Inc. holds 139 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Joby Aero, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Joby Aero, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 69.7 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Joby Aero, Inc. focus on?

Joby Aero, Inc.'s top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 94 patents, ranking #24 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Joby Aero, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Joby Aero, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +3367% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Joby Aero, Inc.'s patents?

Joby Aero, Inc.'s patents average 17.1 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 Joby Aero, 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 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Joby Aero, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 139 granted patents across 40 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Joby ranks #2,772 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 139 patents across 40 technology areas.

#2,772
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.7/100): 17.1
avg claims per patent: +3367%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2772 · US Corporation #2,772 · 139 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 139 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,772/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Institute…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 40 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +3367% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Institute of Technology (±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 Joby’s 69.7 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 17.1 pts (24%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 22.4 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pony AI · near

70
Joby Aero · this assignee

70
PlusAI · near

70
Raytheon · near

70
Covestro (Netherland… · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Joby's Innovation Score is 69.7/100 (top 1% 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 Joby?

Each dot is one of Joby’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). Joby’s own 17.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Joby's grants concentrate

Joby Aero, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 67.6% of grants classified under B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (34 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Joby sits between Beijing Institute of Technology and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Joby's three-year grant acceleration

Joby Aero, Inc. shows 88 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Beijing Institute…

139
Cytiva Sweden AB

139
Continuous Compos…

139
Creative Technolo…

139
Japan Aerospace E…

139
Keihin

139
Kautex Textron &…

139
National Yang Min…

139
Joby Aero ◀

139

What this shows Joby holds 139 patents at rank #2,771, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Joby

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,771 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Joby, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Joby ranks #24 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

PlusAI, Inc. 70 Raytheon Company 70 Covestro (Netherlands) B.V. 70 Pony AI Inc. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.1 here).

St. Jude Medical, LLC 17.1 avg King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 17.1 avg RareCyte, Inc. 17.1 avg Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. 17.1 avg

Joby's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Joby Aero, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	1.4%
2019	1	0.7%
2020	6	4.3%
2021	10	7.2%
2022	20	14.4%
2023	34	24.5%
2024	34	24.5%
2025partial year	32	23.0%

Which technologies does Joby Aero, Inc. patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 94

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 77

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 59

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 34

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 25

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 25

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 17

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 15

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 14

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 13

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 12

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 5

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 5

G01G - Weighing 5

Top 15 of 40 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

Joby Aero, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Joby Aero, Inc.'s lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 67.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #2,772 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Joby Aero, Inc. against Beijing Institute of Technology, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.7/100 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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