Where does Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG ranks #5,542 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 Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG holds 62 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -36% 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 Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 15.9 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 Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG 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

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft) with 60 patents, ranking #50 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 62 granted patents across 27 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: B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Recaro ranks #5,542 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 62 patents across 27 technology areas.

#5,542
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 15.9
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5542 · Foreign Corporation #5,542 · 62 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 62 grants
UPPER-Q #5,542/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Parallels IP Holdings
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Parallels IP Holdings GmbH (±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 Recaro’s 45.9 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 14.3 pts (31%) Velocity 3.7 pts (8%) Breadth 18.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ixblue · near

46
Change Healthcare… · near

46
Global Plasma… · near

46
Moresco · near

46
Recaro Aircraft… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Recaro's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Recaro?

Each dot is one of Recaro’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). Recaro’s own 15.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Recaro's grants concentrate

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 96.8% of grants classified under B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (10 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2022. By volume, Recaro sits between Perfectvision Manufacturing, Inc. and Seno Medical Instruments, Inc..

Recaro's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Perfectvision Man…

62
Parallels IP Hold…

62
Plasser & Theurer…

62
Provenance Asset…

62
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Reckitt Benckiser…

62
Seno Medical Inst…

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62

What this shows Recaro holds 62 patents at rank #5,540, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Recaro

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,540 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Recaro, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Recaro ranks #50 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Change Healthcare Holdings, LLC 46 Global Plasma Solutions, Inc. 46 Moresco Corporation 46 Ixblue 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.9 here).

China Tobacco Hunan Industrial Co., Ltd. 15.9 avg Acucela Inc. 15.9 avg F-Secure Corporation 15.9 avg Modine Manufacturing Company 15.9 avg

Recaro's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% 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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Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	11.3%
2016	10	16.1%
2017	6	9.7%
2018	5	8.1%
2019	8	12.9%
2020	8	12.9%
2021	4	6.5%
2022	3	4.8%
2023	5	8.1%
2024	3	4.8%
2025partial year	3	4.8%

Which technologies does Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 60

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 34

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 15

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 5

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

E05C - Bolts OR Fastening Devices FOR Wings, Specially FOR Doors OR Windows 2

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 2

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1

Top 15 of 27 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

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 96.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #5,542 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG against Perfectvision Manufacturing, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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