Where does Orbital ATK, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbital ATK, Inc. ranks #4,128 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 Orbital ATK, Inc. hold?

Orbital ATK, Inc. holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 84 technology areas.

What is Orbital ATK, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Orbital ATK, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 53.4 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 Orbital ATK, Inc. focus on?

Orbital ATK, Inc.'s top technology area is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition) with 28 patents, ranking #16 of 331 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 84 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orbital ATK, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbital ATK, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Orbital ATK, Inc.'s patents?

Orbital ATK, Inc.'s patents average 21.6 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 Orbital ATK, Inc. 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

Orbital ATK, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 84 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, Orbital ranks #4,128 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 84 technology areas.

#4,128
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.4/100): 21.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4128 · US Corporation #4,128 · 87 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,128/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH MobiTV
CPC-WIDE F42B · 84 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: MobiTV, 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 Orbital’s 53.4 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 15.5 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (47%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beta Bionics · near

53
Mitsubishi Power… · near

53
Musarubra US · near

53
Orbital ATK · this assignee

53
PI Advanced Materials · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbital's Innovation Score is 53.4/100 (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 Orbital?

Each dot is one of Orbital’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). Orbital’s own 21.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Orbital's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Orbital ATK, Inc. received 0 grants versus 87 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 17. Lead class F42B accounts for 32.2% of the portfolio across 84 subclasses. Volume neighbours: MobiTV, Inc. (#4,124) and Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd. (#4,132).

Mobitv

87
NTT

87
Nuscale Power

87
Objectvideo Labs

87
Panasonic Energy

87
Rani Therapeutics

87
Sumitomo Electric…

87
Sumitomo Electric…

87
Orbital ATK ◀

87

What this shows Orbital holds 87 patents at rank #4,128, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Orbital

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,128 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F42B (Explosive Charges)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Orbital, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F42B (Explosive Charges), Orbital ranks #16 of 331 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

PI Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. 53 Musarubra US LLC 53 Beta Bionics, Inc. 53 Mitsubishi Power Americas, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.6 here).

Acergy France SAS 21.6 avg Abbyy Development Inc. 21.6 avg PTC Inc. 21.6 avg Veveo LLC 21.5 avg

Orbital'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 · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Orbital ATK, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	21.8%
2016	30	34.5%
2017	21	24.1%
2018	17	19.5%

Which technologies does Orbital ATK, Inc. patent most?

F42B - Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition 28

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

C06B - Explosives OR Thermic Compositions ; Manufacture THEREOF; USE OF Single Substances AS Explosives 14

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 9

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 9

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 8

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 7

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 7

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 6

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 5

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 5

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 5

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 5

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 5

F23D - Burners 4

Top 15 of 84 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

Orbital ATK, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbital ATK, Inc.'s lead technology class is F42B (Explosive Charges, e.g. FOR Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition), 32.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F42B
Ranked #4,128 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbital ATK, Inc. against MobiTV, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.4/100 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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