Where does Kitty Hawk Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Kitty Hawk Corporation ranks #1,613 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 Kitty Hawk Corporation hold?

Kitty Hawk Corporation holds 256 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Kitty Hawk Corporation's Innovation Score?

Kitty Hawk Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.6 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Kitty Hawk Corporation focus on?

Kitty Hawk Corporation's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 171 patents, ranking #11 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

Is Kitty Hawk Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Kitty Hawk Corporation's recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Kitty Hawk Corporation's patents?

Kitty Hawk Corporation's patents average 16.4 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 Kitty Hawk 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

Kitty Hawk Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 256 granted patents across 55 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Kitty ranks #1,613 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 256 patents across 55 technology areas.

#1,613
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.6/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1613 · US Corporation #1,613 · 256 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 256 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,613/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Asahi Kasei…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Asahi Kasei Microdevices 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.

How Kitty’s 57.6 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 19.2 pts (33%) Velocity 3.6 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.9 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alibaba (China) · near

58
Insulet · near

58
Kitty Hawk · this assignee

58
Toyota Tsusho · near

58
Netflix · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Kitty's Innovation Score is 57.6/100 (top 5% 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 Kitty?

Each dot is one of Kitty’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). Kitty’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Kitty's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Kitty Hawk Corporation received 137 grants versus 106 in 2015–2019 (+29% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 58 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 7. Lead class B64C accounts for 66.8% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SMS group GmbH (#1,609) and Biomerieux, Inc. (#1,617).

Kitty's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Kitty Hawk Corporation moved from 127 to 68 grants (0.54x 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 #2,608. See the growth leaderboard.

SMS group

257
Asahi Kasei Micro…

256
Bull SAS

256
Johnson Electric

256
Nexans

256
SEB

256
Stmicroelectronic…

256
Kitty Hawk ◀

256
Biomerieux

255

What this shows Kitty holds 256 patents at rank #1,613, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Kitty

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,613 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Kitty, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Kitty ranks #11 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Insulet Corporation 58 Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd 58 Toyota Tsusho Corporation 58 Netflix, Inc. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

TDK Taiwan Corp. 16.4 avg Alphatec Spine, Inc. 16.4 avg Ubiquiti Inc. 16.4 avg Parallels IP Holdings GmbH 16.4 avg

Kitty's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Kitty Hawk Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	7	2.7%
2018	41	16.0%
2019	58	22.7%
2020	35	13.7%
2021	34	13.3%
2022	18	7.0%
2023	28	10.9%
2024	22	8.6%
2025partial year	13	5.1%

Which technologies does Kitty Hawk Corporation patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 171

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 155

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 77

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 66

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 65

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 38

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 29

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 27

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 19

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 14

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 14

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

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 7

Top 15 of 55 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

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

Kitty Hawk Corporation's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 66.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #1,613 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Kitty Hawk Corporation against SMS group GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.6/100 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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