Where does Safran Aero Boosters rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Aero Boosters ranks #2,796 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 Safran Aero Boosters hold?

Safran Aero Boosters holds 138 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 74 technology areas.

What is Safran Aero Boosters's Innovation Score?

Safran Aero Boosters has an Innovation Score of 54.0 out of 100 (top 8% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Safran Aero Boosters focus on?

Safran Aero Boosters's top technology area is F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines) with 111 patents, ranking #26 of 462 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 74 CPC subclasses total.

Is Safran Aero Boosters's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Aero Boosters's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Safran Aero Boosters's patents?

Safran Aero Boosters's patents average 14.5 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 Safran Aero Boosters 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

Safran Aero Boosters

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 138 granted patents across 74 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #2,796 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 138 patents across 74 technology areas.

#2,796
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 8%
by Innovation Score (54.0/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2796 · Foreign Corporation #2,796 · 138 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 138 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,796/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lubrizol Advanced…
CPC-WIDE F01D · 74 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, 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 Safran’s 54.0 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 17.0 pts (31%) Velocity 3.3 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AmTRAN Technology · near

54
Indian Motorcycle… · near

54
Safran Aero Boosters · this assignee

54
Walbro · near

54
Yahoo Holdings · near

54
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 54.0/100 (top 8% 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 Safran?

Each dot is one of Safran’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). Safran’s own 14.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Safran's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Safran Aero Boosters received 57 grants versus 73 in 2015–2019 (-22% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 34 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 6. Lead class F01D accounts for 80.4% of the portfolio across 74 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. (#2,792) and Visa U.S.A. Inc. (#2,800).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Aero Boosters moved from 57 to 28 grants (0.49x 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 #2,711. See the growth leaderboard.

Lubrizol Advanced…

138
Multivac Sepp Hag…

138
Qiagen

138
RTC Industries

138
Saipem S P A

138
Sandvik Mining an…

138
Umicore

138
Visa U

138
Safran Aero Boost… ◀

138

What this shows Safran holds 138 patents at rank #2,796, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Safran

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,796 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Safran, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines), Safran ranks #26 of 462 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (54 here).

Walbro LLC 54 AmTRAN Technology Co., Ltd. 54 Yahoo Holdings, Inc. 54 Indian Motorcycle International, LLC 54

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

Edwards Limited 14.5 avg Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 14.5 avg K-tronics (SUZHOU) Technology Co., Ltd. 14.5 avg Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC 14.5 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

54 Top 8% higher than 92% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Safran Aero Boosters patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	11	8.0%
2018	34	24.6%
2019	28	20.3%
2020	16	11.6%
2021	13	9.4%
2022	15	10.9%
2023	6	4.3%
2024	7	5.1%
2025partial year	8	5.8%

Which technologies does Safran Aero Boosters patent most?

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 111

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 104

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 69

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 66

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 39

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 15

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 12

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 9

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 9

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 8

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 8

F16N - Lubricating 8

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 7

Top 15 of 74 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

Safran Aero Boosters's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Aero Boosters's lead technology class is F01D (Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines), 80.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F01D
Ranked #2,796 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Aero Boosters against Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.0/100 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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