Where does MTU Aero Engines AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), MTU Aero Engines AG ranks #807 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 MTU Aero Engines AG hold?

MTU Aero Engines AG holds 571 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 92 technology areas.

What is MTU Aero Engines AG's Innovation Score?

MTU Aero Engines AG has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does MTU Aero Engines AG focus on?

MTU Aero Engines AG's top technology area is F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines) with 468 patents, ranking #10 of 462 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 92 CPC subclasses total.

Is MTU Aero Engines AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

MTU Aero Engines AG's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 MTU Aero Engines AG's patents?

MTU Aero Engines AG's patents average 14.5 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 MTU Aero Engines 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

MTU Aero Engines AG

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 571 granted patents across 92 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: F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, MTU ranks #807 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 571 patents across 92 technology areas.

#807
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R807 · Foreign Corporation #807 · 571 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 571 grants
TOP-DECILE #807/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Honor Device
CPC-WIDE F01D · 92 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Honor Device Co., Ltd. (±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 MTU’s 58.5 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 21.9 pts (37%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bruker Nano · near

59
Clemson University · near

59
MTU Aero Engines · this assignee

59
Nutanix · near

59
Zeon · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows MTU's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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 MTU?

Each dot is one of MTU’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). MTU’s own 14.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How MTU's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, MTU Aero Engines AG received 200 grants versus 349 in 2015–2019 (-43% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 90 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 18. Lead class F01D accounts for 82% of the portfolio across 92 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nutanix, Inc. (#803) and Hill-Rom Services, Inc. (#811).

MTU's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, MTU Aero Engines AG moved from 202 to 88 grants (0.44x 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 #2,816. See the growth leaderboard.

Nutanix

574
Silergy Semicondu…

574
Gyrus Acmi

572
Honor Device

571
MTU Aero Engines ◀

571
Getac Technology

570
The Cleveland Cli…

570
Wonderland Switze…

570
Hill-rom Services

569

What this shows MTU holds 571 patents at rank #807, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near MTU

By rank, the assignees closest to #807 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for MTU, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines), MTU ranks #10 of 462 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Nutanix, Inc. 59 Zeon Corporation 59 Bruker Nano, Inc. 59 Clemson University 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army 14.5 avg Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC 14.5 avg Leoni Kabel GMBH 14.5 avg Groz-beckert KG 14.5 avg

MTU's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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MTU Aero Engines AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	7.4%
2016	58	10.2%
2017	84	14.7%
2018	75	13.1%
2019	90	15.8%
2020	77	13.5%
2021	35	6.1%
2022	34	6.0%
2023	18	3.2%
2024	36	6.3%
2025partial year	22	3.9%

Which technologies does MTU Aero Engines AG patent most?

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 468

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 416

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 217

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 118

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 93

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 68

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 65

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 62

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 61

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 59

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 40

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 39

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 35

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 31

C22C - Alloys 29

Top 15 of 92 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

MTU Aero Engines AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

MTU Aero Engines AG's lead technology class is F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines), 82% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01D
Ranked #807 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare MTU Aero Engines AG against Nutanix, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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

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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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