Where does Orbital Australia PTY Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Orbital Australia PTY Ltd ranks #13,602 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 Australia PTY Ltd hold?

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's Innovation Score?

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd has an Innovation Score of 42.5 out of 100 (top 30% 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 Australia PTY Ltd focus on?

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 11 patents, ranking #77 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

Is Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Australia PTY Ltd's patents?

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's patents average 23.6 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 Australia PTY Ltd 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

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 16 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Orbital ranks #13,602 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 16 technology areas.

#13,602
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.5/100): 23.6
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13602 · Foreign Corporation #13,602 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,602/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Omni AI
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Omni AI, 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 42.5 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 10.8 pts (25%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Orbital Australia PTY · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Orbital's Innovation Score is 42.5/100 (top 30% 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 23.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.1 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.

Where Orbital's grants concentrate

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Orbital sits between Omni AI, Inc. and Oxide Interactive, Inc..

Orbital's three-year grant acceleration

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 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.

Omni AI

22
ON Clouds

22
Optoelectronics

22
Orange Pine PTE

22
Orcan Energy

22
Orckit IP

22
Owlet Baby Care

22
Oxide Interactive

22
Orbital Australia… ◀

22

What this shows Orbital holds 22 patents at rank #13,594, 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 #13,594 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Orbital's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 30% higher than 70% 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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Orbital Australia PTY Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.5%
2016	4	18.2%
2017	2	9.1%
2018	1	4.5%
2019	4	18.2%
2020	3	13.6%
2021	1	4.5%
2022	1	4.5%
2023	1	4.5%
2024	2	9.1%
2025partial year	2	9.1%

Which technologies does Orbital Australia PTY Ltd patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 11

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 10

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 10

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 7

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 7

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 6

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 4

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 3

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 3

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 1

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 1

F01P - Cooling OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Cooling OF Internal-combustion Engines 1

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 1

Top 15 of 16 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 Australia PTY Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Orbital Australia PTY Ltd's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #13,602 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Orbital Australia PTY Ltd against Omni AI, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.5/100 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

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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