Where does Meggitt Aerospace Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Meggitt Aerospace Limited ranks #24,787 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 Meggitt Aerospace Limited hold?

Meggitt Aerospace Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Meggitt Aerospace Limited's Innovation Score?

Meggitt Aerospace Limited has an Innovation Score of 46.0 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Meggitt Aerospace Limited focus on?

Meggitt Aerospace Limited's top technology area is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes) with 3 patents, ranking #367 of 1,090 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Meggitt Aerospace Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Meggitt Aerospace Limited's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Meggitt Aerospace Limited's patents?

Meggitt Aerospace Limited'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 Meggitt Aerospace Limited 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

Meggitt Aerospace Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 28 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: F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Meggitt ranks #24,787 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 28 technology areas.

#24,787
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (46.0/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24787 · Foreign Corporation #24,787 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,787/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Mckeon Rolling…
CPC-FOCUS F16D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Mckeon Rolling Steel Door Co., Inc. (±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 Meggitt’s 46.0 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 8.6 pts (19%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 18.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Meggitt Aerospace · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Meggitt's Innovation Score is 46.0/100 (top 22% 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 Meggitt?

Each dot is one of Meggitt’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). Meggitt’s own 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Meggitt's grants concentrate

Meggitt Aerospace Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 27.3% of grants classified under F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Meggitt sits between Mckeon Rolling Steel Door Co., Inc. and Mhwirth GMBH.

Meggitt's three-year grant acceleration

Meggitt Aerospace Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Mckeon Rolling St…

11
Medeon Biodesign

11
Medicomp Systems

11
Medimpact Healthc…

11
Melitta Europa &…

11
MEP Tech

11
Meru Networks

11
Mhwirth

11
Meggitt Aerospace ◀

11

What this shows Meggitt holds 11 patents at rank #24,744, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Meggitt

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,744 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting Rotation)

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

Meggitt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Meggitt Aerospace Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	18.2%
2018	1	9.1%
2019	1	9.1%
2020	1	9.1%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	2	18.2%
2024	2	18.2%
2025partial year	1	9.1%

Which technologies does Meggitt Aerospace Limited patent most?

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 3

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 1

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Conductive, Insulating OR Dielectric Properties 1

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 1

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 1

Top 15 of 28 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

Meggitt Aerospace Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Meggitt Aerospace Limited's lead technology class is F16D (Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes), 27.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16D
Ranked #24,787 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Meggitt Aerospace Limited against Mckeon Rolling Steel Door Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.0/100 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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