Where does Safran Aircraft Engines rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Aircraft Engines ranks #225 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 Aircraft Engines hold?

Safran Aircraft Engines holds 1,805 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 181 technology areas.

What is Safran Aircraft Engines's Innovation Score?

Safran Aircraft Engines has an Innovation Score of 63.8 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Safran Aircraft Engines's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Aircraft Engines's recent grant velocity is +221% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Safran Aircraft Engines's patents?

Safran Aircraft Engines's patents average 11.7 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 Aircraft Engines 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 Aircraft Engines

Q: What technology areas does Safran Aircraft Engines focus on?

Safran Aircraft Engines'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 1,380 patents, ranking #4 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 181 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,805 granted patents across 181 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: 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, Safran ranks #225 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,805 patents across 181 technology areas.

#225
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.8/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: +221%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R225 · Foreign Corporation #225 · 1,805 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #225/49,997
NEAR-PEER Delta
CPC-WIDE F05D · 181 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +221% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Delta Electronics, Inc. (±10 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 63.8 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 25.9 pts (41%) Velocity 5.9 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GlobalFoundries · near

64
Safran Aircraft… · this assignee

64
Arizona Board of… · near

64
Mayo Foundation for… · near

64
Omron · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 63.8/100 (top 2% 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 11.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.5 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 Aircraft Engines received 1,265 grants versus 394 in 2015–2019 (+221% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 302 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 10. Lead class F05D accounts for 76.5% of the portfolio across 181 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc. (#221) and Tencent America LLC (#229).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Aircraft Engines moved from 824 to 729 grants (0.89x 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 #1,534. See the growth leaderboard.

Haier US Applianc…

1,829
President and Fel…

1,824
Intel IP

1,818
Delta

1,815
Safran Aircraft E… ◀

1,805
Citrix Systems

1,793
Wistron

1,775
Netapp

1,774
Tencent America

1,774

What this shows Safran holds 1,805 patents at rank #225, 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 #225 in granted patent volume.

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

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 F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), Safran ranks #4 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

GlobalFoundries Inc. 64 Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona 64 Omron Corporation 64 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.7 here).

Tohoku University 11.7 avg Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. 11.7 avg Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG 11.7 avg UNIST(ULSAN National Institute OF Science AND TECHNOLOGY) 11.7 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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 Aircraft Engines patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	10	0.6%
2018	96	5.3%
2019	288	16.0%
2020	302	16.7%
2021	234	13.0%
2022	232	12.9%
2023	219	12.1%
2024	278	15.4%
2025partial year	146	8.1%

Which technologies does Safran Aircraft Engines patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 1,380

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 1,240

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 796

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 592

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 318

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 305

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 253

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 171

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 165

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 114

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 76

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 72

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 67

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 60

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 58

Top 15 of 181 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

Safran Aircraft Engines's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Aircraft Engines's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 76.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #225 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Aircraft Engines against Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.8/100 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

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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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