Where does Safran Electronics & Defense rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Electronics & Defense ranks #1,278 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 Electronics & Defense hold?

Safran Electronics & Defense holds 331 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 133 technology areas.

What is Safran Electronics & Defense's Innovation Score?

Safran Electronics & Defense has an Innovation Score of 56.7 out of 100 (top 6% 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 Electronics & Defense focus on?

Safran Electronics & Defense's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 45 patents, ranking #46 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 133 CPC subclasses total.

Is Safran Electronics & Defense's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Electronics & Defense's recent grant velocity is +131% 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 Electronics & Defense's patents?

Safran Electronics & Defense's patents average 11.5 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 Electronics & Defense 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 Electronics & Defense

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 331 granted patents across 133 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #1,278 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 331 patents across 133 technology areas.

#1,278
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.7/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: +131%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1278 · Foreign Corporation #1,278 · 331 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 331 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,278/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Columbia Insurance
CPC-WIDE B64C · 133 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +131% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Columbia Insurance Company (±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 56.7 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 20.1 pts (35%) Velocity 4.7 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Comet · near

57
Mars Incorporated · near

57
Safran & Defense · this assignee

57
Sidel Participations S · near

57
Zoomlion Heavy… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 56.7/100 (top 6% 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 11.5 claims/patent is at or below the 15.0 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 Electronics & Defense received 208 grants versus 90 in 2015–2019 (+131% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 56 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 2. Lead class B64C accounts for 13.6% of the portfolio across 133 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toyobo Co., Ltd. (#1,274) and Southwest Research Institute (#1,282).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Electronics & Defense moved from 146 to 103 grants (0.70x 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 #2,138. See the growth leaderboard.

Toyobo

332
Columbia Insurance

331
Gpcp IP Holdings

331
Jiangsu University

331
Safran & Defense ◀

331
Louis Vuitton Mal…

330
Rijk Zwaan Zaadte…

330
Rheem Manufacturi…

330
Southwest Researc…

330

What this shows Safran holds 331 patents at rank #1,278, 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 #1,278 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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 B64C (Aeroplanes), Safran ranks #46 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Mars, Incorporated 57 Sidel Participations S.A.S 57 Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science AND Technology Co., Ltd. 57 Comet AG 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.5 here).

Creative Technology Corporation 11.5 avg Festo AG & Co. KG 11.5 avg Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association 11.5 avg Shaanxi Lighte Optoelectronics Material Co., Ltd. 11.5 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Safran Electronics & Defense patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	0.6%
2017	19	5.7%
2018	28	8.5%
2019	41	12.4%
2020	49	14.8%
2021	56	16.9%
2022	43	13.0%
2023	31	9.4%
2024	29	8.8%
2025partial year	33	10.0%

Which technologies does Safran Electronics & Defense patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 45

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 39

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 37

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 36

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 31

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 24

H04B - Transmission 20

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 19

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 18

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 16

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 16

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 15

F16H - Gearing 15

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 14

Top 15 of 133 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 Electronics & Defense's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Electronics & Defense's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 13.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #1,278 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Electronics & Defense against Toyobo Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.7/100 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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