Where does Parrot Drones rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Parrot Drones ranks #7,907 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 Parrot Drones hold?

Parrot Drones holds 41 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Parrot Drones's Innovation Score?

Parrot Drones has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 46% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Parrot Drones focus on?

Parrot Drones's top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 16 patents, ranking #52 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Parrot Drones's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Parrot Drones's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Parrot Drones's patents?

Parrot Drones's patents average 5.8 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 Parrot Drones 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

Parrot Drones

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 41 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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, Parrot ranks #7,907 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 41 patents across 29 technology areas.

#7,907
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 46%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 5.8
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7907 · Foreign Corporation #7,907 · 41 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 41 grants
UPPER-Q #7,907/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Outokumpu Oyj
CPC-FOCUS B64U · 29 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Outokumpu Oyj (±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 Parrot’s 36.4 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 12.9 pts (35%) Velocity 1.0 pts (3%) Breadth 19.0 pts (52%) Claim depth 3.5 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chunghwa Telecom · near

36
FNA Group · near

36
GEM Products · near

36
Longsand · near

36
Parrot Drones · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Parrot's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 46% 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 Parrot?

Each dot is one of Parrot’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). Parrot’s own 5.8 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.

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

Where Parrot's grants concentrate

Parrot Drones is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 39% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Parrot sits between Outokumpu Oyj and Realnetworks LLC.

Parrot's three-year grant acceleration

Parrot Drones shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Outokumpu Oyj

41
Ovivo

41
Polyphor

41
Pragmatic Printing

41
Quadient France

41
Queen Mary Univer…

41
Quantum Machines

41
Realnetworks

41
Parrot Drones ◀

41

What this shows Parrot holds 41 patents at rank #7,909, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Parrot

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,909 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Parrot, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Parrot ranks #52 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

GEM Products, LLC 36 Longsand Limited 36 FNA Group, Inc. 36 Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. 36

Parrot's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 46% higher than 54% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Parrot Drones patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	9	22.0%
2017	14	34.1%
2018	10	24.4%
2019	6	14.6%
2021	1	2.4%
2024	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Parrot Drones patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 16

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 13

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 8

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 6

H04B - Transmission 3

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

Top 15 of 29 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

Parrot Drones's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Parrot Drones's lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 39% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #7,907 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Parrot Drones against Outokumpu Oyj, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.