Where does Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. ranks #202 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 Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. hold?

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. holds 2,008 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 177 technology areas.

What is Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s Innovation Score?

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. has an Innovation Score of 70.8 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s recent grant velocity is +111% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s patents?

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'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 Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. 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

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.

Q: What technology areas does Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. focus on?

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 1,334 patents. Grants appear in 177 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 2,008 granted patents across 177 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Pratt ranks #202 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 2,008 patents across 177 technology areas.

#202
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.8/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: +111%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R202 · Foreign Corporation #202 · 2,008 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 2.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #202/49,997
NEAR-PEER IGT
CPC-WIDE F05D · 177 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +111% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: IGT (±6 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Intuitive Surgical… · near

71
Berkshire Grey… · near

71
Pratt & Whitney Canada · this assignee

71
Verb Surgical · near

71
Juniper Networks · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Pratt's Innovation Score is 70.8/100 (top 1% 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.

How Pratt's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. received 1,229 grants versus 582 in 2015–2019 (+111% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 283 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 89. Lead class F05D accounts for 66.4% of the portfolio across 177 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ethicon, Inc. (#198) and Magic Leap, Inc. (#206).

Pratt's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. moved from 570 to 831 grants (1.46x 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 #482. See the growth leaderboard.

Ethicon

2,042
Broadcom

2,041
Mastercard Intern…

2,038
IGT

2,014
Pratt & Whitney C… ◀

2,008
King Fahd Univers…

2,002
Subaru

1,977
Lam Research

1,965
Magic Leap

1,959

What this shows Pratt holds 2,008 patents at rank #202, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Pratt

By rank, the assignees closest to #202 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Pratt, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc. 71 Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. 71 Verb Surgical Inc. 71 Juniper Networks, Inc. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.4 here).

LG Innotek Co., Ltd. 16.4 avg Bestop, Inc. 16.4 avg GeoFrenzy, Inc. 16.4 avg Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce 16.4 avg

Pratt's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% 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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Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	89	4.4%
2016	91	4.5%
2017	112	5.6%
2018	118	5.9%
2019	172	8.6%
2020	201	10.0%
2021	197	9.8%
2022	266	13.2%
2023	282	14.0%
2024	283	14.1%
2025partial year	197	9.8%

Which technologies does Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1,334

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 965

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 958

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 567

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 402

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 251

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 196

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 174

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 153

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 145

F01C - Rotary-piston OR Oscillating-piston Machines OR Engines 129

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 117

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 81

F16H - Gearing 81

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 75

Top 15 of 177 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#202

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 66.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #202 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. against Ethicon, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.8/100 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

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