Where does Mbda France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mbda France ranks #5,026 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 Mbda France hold?

Mbda France holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 57 technology areas.

What is Mbda France's Innovation Score?

Mbda France has an Innovation Score of 52.9 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mbda France focus on?

Mbda France's top technology area is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition) with 23 patents, ranking #19 of 331 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 57 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mbda France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mbda France's recent grant velocity is -45% 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 Mbda France's patents?

Mbda France's patents average 13.2 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 Mbda France 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

Mbda France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 57 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: F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mbda ranks #5,026 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 57 technology areas.

#5,026
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (52.9/100): 13.2
avg claims per patent: -45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5026 · Foreign Corporation #5,026 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
UPPER-Q #5,026/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lenzing Aktiengesell…
CPC-WIDE F42B · 57 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft (±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 Mbda’s 52.9 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 14.7 pts (28%) Velocity 5.3 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 7.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mbda France · this assignee

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Rochester Institute… · near

53
Toshiba Digital… · near

53
United Therapeutics · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mbda's Innovation Score is 52.9/100 (top 9% 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 Mbda?

Each dot is one of Mbda’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). Mbda’s own 13.2 claims/patent is at or below the 14.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Mbda's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Mbda France received 23 grants versus 42 in 2015–2019 (-45% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 12 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 2. Lead class F42B accounts for 33.3% of the portfolio across 57 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft (#5,022) and Oura Health Oy (#5,030).

Mbda's three-year grant acceleration

Mbda France shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Lenzing Aktienges…

69
Litepoint

69
Lightmatter

69
Mallinckrodt

69
National Universi…

69
Netspeed Systems

69
Oclaro Japan

69
Oura Health Oy

69
Mbda France ◀

69

What this shows Mbda holds 69 patents at rank #5,026, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mbda

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,026 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mbda, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F42B (Explosive Charges), Mbda ranks #19 of 331 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Rochester Institute of Technology 53 United Therapeutics Corporation 53 Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation 53 Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.2 here).

Telefónica, S.A 13.2 avg Varroc Lighting Systems, S.R.O. 13.2 avg Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. 13.2 avg Norma Germany GMBH 13.2 avg

Mbda's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Mbda France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	17.4%
2016	10	14.5%
2017	11	15.9%
2018	5	7.2%
2019	4	5.8%
2020	5	7.2%
2021	6	8.7%
2022	4	5.8%
2023	2	2.9%
2024	6	8.7%
2025partial year	4	5.8%

Which technologies does Mbda France patent most?

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 23

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 12

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 7

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 6

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 6

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 5

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 5

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 5

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 4

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 4

F41A - Functional Features OR Details Common TO Both Smallarms AND Ordnance, e.g. CANNONS; Mountings FOR Smallarms OR Ordnance 4

F41F - Apparatus FOR Launching Projectiles OR Missiles From Barrels, e.g. Cannons ; Launchers FOR Rockets OR TORPEDOES; Harpoon Guns 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

Top 15 of 57 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

Mbda France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mbda France's lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
Ranked #5,026 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mbda France against Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.9/100 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

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