Where does Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. ranks #3,940 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd. hold?

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. holds 92 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd. focus on?

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 87 patents, ranking #26 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

Is Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +26% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s patents?

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s patents average 15.0 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd. 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 92 granted patents across 48 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #3,940 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 92 patents across 48 technology areas.

#3,940
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3940 · Foreign Corporation #3,940 · 92 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 92 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,940/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nicoventures Holdings
CPC-WIDE B64C · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nicoventures Holdings Limited (±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 53.2 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 15.7 pts (30%) Velocity 4.0 pts (8%) Breadth 24.5 pts (46%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essilor Internationa… · near

53
NBCUniversal Media · near

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Safran Landing… · this assignee

53
W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Safran's grants concentrate

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 94.6% of grants classified under B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (15 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2023. By volume, Safran sits between Nicoventures Holdings Limited and Shanghai Yanfeng Jinqiao Automotive Trim Systems Co. Ltd..

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. moved from 38 to 23 grants (0.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Nicoventures Hold…

92
Orbital Research

92
Puzhen Life

92
Qlogic

92
Saint-gobain Cent…

92
Saucony

92
Schreder

92
Shanghai Yanfeng…

92
Safran Landing Sy… ◀

92

What this shows Safran holds 92 patents at rank #3,940, 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 #3,940 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 #26 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

NBCUniversal Media, LLC 53 Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) 53 Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation 53 W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

Nalco Company LLC 15.0 avg Institut Mines Telecom 15.0 avg Staubli Faverges 15.0 avg Axis Lighting Inc. 15.0 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	10	10.9%
2018	15	16.3%
2019	13	14.1%
2020	13	14.1%
2021	12	13.0%
2022	13	14.1%
2023	5	5.4%
2024	5	5.4%
2025partial year	6	6.5%

Which technologies does Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 87

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 24

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 11

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 10

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

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 7

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

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 3

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

G01G - Weighing 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Top 15 of 48 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 Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd.'s lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 94.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #3,940 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. against Nicoventures Holdings Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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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