Where does Safran Landing Systems rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Landing Systems ranks #2,245 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 hold?

Safran Landing Systems holds 175 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 85 technology areas.

What is Safran Landing Systems's Innovation Score?

Safran Landing Systems has an Innovation Score of 56.5 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 Landing Systems focus on?

Safran Landing Systems's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 127 patents, ranking #18 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 85 CPC subclasses total.

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

Safran Landing Systems's recent grant velocity is +354% 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 Landing Systems's patents?

Safran Landing Systems's patents average 10.4 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 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

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 175 granted patents across 85 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #2,245 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 175 patents across 85 technology areas.

#2,245
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.5/100): 10.4
avg claims per patent: +354%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2245 · Foreign Corporation #2,245 · 175 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 175 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,245/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Impinj
CPC-WIDE B64C · 85 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +354% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Impinj, 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 56.5 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 17.9 pts (32%) Velocity 7.4 pts (13%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.3 pts (11%)

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What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 56.5/100 (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 10.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.6 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 Landing Systems received 118 grants versus 26 in 2015–2019 (+354% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 31 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class B64C accounts for 72.6% of the portfolio across 85 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Impinj, Inc. (#2,241) and Belkin International, Inc. (#2,249).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Landing Systems moved from 65 to 72 grants (1.11x 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 #943. See the growth leaderboard.

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What this shows Safran holds 175 patents at rank #2,245, 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 #2,245 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 #18 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary 57 Solar Turbines Incorporated 57 Trumpf Laser- UND Systemtechnik GMBH 57 ServiceNow Canada Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.4 here).

Rittal GMBH & Co. KG 10.4 avg Sungwoo Hitech Co., Ltd. 10.4 avg THE Japan Steel Works, Ltd. 10.4 avg IPS Group Inc. 10.4 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 · 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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	0.6%
2018	6	3.4%
2019	19	10.9%
2020	23	13.1%
2021	23	13.1%
2022	20	11.4%
2023	31	17.7%
2024	21	12.0%
2025partial year	31	17.7%

Which technologies does Safran Landing Systems patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 127

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 39

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 38

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 36

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 21

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

F16H - Gearing 11

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 11

B60B - Vehicle Wheels ; CASTORS; Axles FOR Wheels OR CASTORS; Increasing Wheel Adhesion 10

B60C - Vehicle TYRES; Tyre INFLATION; Tyre CHANGING; Connecting Valves TO Inflatable Elastic Bodies IN GENERAL; Devices OR Arrangements Related TO Tyres 10

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 10

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 8

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 7

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 6

Top 15 of 85 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's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Landing Systems's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 72.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #2,245 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Landing Systems against Impinj, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.5/100 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

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