Where does Lufthansa Technik AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Lufthansa Technik AG ranks #4,343 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 Lufthansa Technik AG hold?

Lufthansa Technik AG holds 82 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 90 technology areas.

What is Lufthansa Technik AG's Innovation Score?

Lufthansa Technik AG has an Innovation Score of 56.9 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Lufthansa Technik AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Lufthansa Technik AG's recent grant velocity is -11% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Lufthansa Technik AG's patents?

Lufthansa Technik AG's patents average 15.5 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 Lufthansa Technik AG 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

Lufthansa Technik AG

Q: What technology areas does Lufthansa Technik AG focus on?

Lufthansa Technik AG'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 27 patents. Grants appear in 90 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 82 granted patents across 90 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, Lufthansa ranks #4,343 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 82 patents across 90 technology areas.

#4,343
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -11%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4343 · Foreign Corporation #4,343 · 82 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 82 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,343/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Institut Mines Telecom
CPC-WIDE B64D · 90 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -11% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Institut Mines Telecom (±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
Diodes Incorporated · near

57
Buckman Laboratories… · near

57
Lufthansa Technik · this assignee

57
Safran Seats GB · near

57
SKY Tech · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Lufthansa's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (top 6% 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 Lufthansa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Lufthansa Technik AG received 34 grants versus 38 in 2015–2019 (-11% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 9 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 4. Lead class B64D accounts for 32.9% of the portfolio across 90 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Institut Mines Telecom (#4,337) and Oberthur Technologies (#4,345).

Lufthansa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Lufthansa Technik AG moved from 20 to 22 grants (1.10x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Institut Mines Te…

82
Institut National…

82
Institute For Bas…

82
KWS Saat SE & Kgaa

82
Lund Motion Produ…

82
Magneti Marelli S…

82
Nova Measuring In…

82
Oberthur

82
Lufthansa Technik ◀

82

What this shows Lufthansa holds 82 patents at rank #4,341, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Lufthansa

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,341 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

SKY Tech Inc. 57 Safran Seats GB Limited 57 Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. 57 Diodes Incorporated 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.5 here).

MacDon Industries Ltd. 15.5 avg Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University 15.5 avg BenQ Corporation 15.5 avg ZF Automotive Germany GmbH 15.5 avg

Lufthansa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Lufthansa Technik AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	9.8%
2016	7	8.5%
2017	6	7.3%
2018	9	11.0%
2019	8	9.8%
2020	6	7.3%
2021	6	7.3%
2022	9	11.0%
2023	4	4.9%
2024	9	11.0%
2025partial year	10	12.2%

Which technologies does Lufthansa Technik AG patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 27

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 24

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 19

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 8

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 8

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 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 4

Top 15 of 90 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,343

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.9 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

Lufthansa Technik AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Lufthansa Technik AG'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), 32.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #4,343 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Lufthansa Technik AG against Institut Mines Telecom, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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