Where does Safran Helicopter Engines rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Helicopter Engines ranks #2,067 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 Helicopter Engines hold?

Safran Helicopter Engines holds 192 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 81 technology areas.

What is Safran Helicopter Engines's Innovation Score?

Safran Helicopter Engines has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Safran Helicopter Engines's recent grant velocity is +124% 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 Helicopter Engines's patents?

Safran Helicopter Engines'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 Helicopter 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 Helicopter Engines

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

Safran Helicopter 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 121 patents, ranking #34 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 81 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 192 granted patents across 81 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #2,067 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 192 patents across 81 technology areas.

#2,067
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: +124%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2067 · Foreign Corporation #2,067 · 192 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 192 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,067/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH InterDigital…
CPC-WIDE F05D · 81 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +124% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS (±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 57.5 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 18.2 pts (32%) Velocity 7.4 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (12%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fujikin Incorporated · near

57
General Mills · near

57
Liveperson · near

57
Purdue Pharma · near

57
Safran Helicopter… · this assignee

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 17.1 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 Helicopter Engines received 114 grants versus 51 in 2015–2019 (+124% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 2. Lead class F05D accounts for 63% of the portfolio across 81 subclasses. Volume neighbours: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS (#2,063) and Array BioPharma, Inc. (#2,071).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Helicopter Engines moved from 68 to 75 grants (1.10x 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 #955. See the growth leaderboard.

Interdigital Madi…

192
Line

192
Opple Lighting

192
Quantum

192
Sagemcom Broadban…

192
Saint-gobain Abra…

192
Zhejiang Sunny Op…

192
Safran Helicopter… ◀

192
Array Biopharma

191

What this shows Safran holds 192 patents at rank #2,067, 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 #2,067 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 #34 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Liveperson, Inc. 57 Fujikin Incorporated 57 General Mills, Inc. 57 Purdue Pharma L.P. 57

Similar claim depth

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

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation 11.5 avg East China University of Science and Technology 11.5 avg Allergan, Inc. 11.5 avg J. Morita MFG. Corp. 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 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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.

View data table

Safran Helicopter Engines patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	1.0%
2018	20	10.4%
2019	29	15.1%
2020	20	10.4%
2021	19	9.9%
2022	20	10.4%
2023	18	9.4%
2024	37	19.3%
2025partial year	27	14.1%

Which technologies does Safran Helicopter Engines patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 121

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 94

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 91

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 84

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 66

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 46

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 17

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 12

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 12

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 11

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 10

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 7

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 7

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 6

B01D - Separation 6

Top 15 of 81 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Safran Helicopter 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), 63% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #2,067 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Helicopter Engines against InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.