Where does Safran Nacelles rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Nacelles ranks #1,941 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 Nacelles hold?

Safran Nacelles holds 207 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 62 technology areas.

What is Safran Nacelles's Innovation Score?

Safran Nacelles has an Innovation Score of 70.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Safran Nacelles's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Nacelles's recent grant velocity is +732% 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 Nacelles's patents?

Safran Nacelles's patents average 11.9 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 Nacelles 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 Nacelles

Q: What technology areas does Safran Nacelles focus on?

Safran Nacelles'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 144 patents. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 207 granted patents across 62 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: 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 #1,941 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 207 patents across 62 technology areas.

#1,941
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 11.9
avg claims per patent: +732%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1941 · Foreign Corporation #1,941 · 207 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 207 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,941/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fujitsu Optical…
CPC-WIDE F05D · 62 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +732% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fujitsu Optical Components 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cytiva Sweden AB · near

71
Postech Research… · near

71
Safran Nacelles · this assignee

71
Zebra · near

71
Paypal · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (top 1% 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.

How Safran's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Safran Nacelles received 158 grants versus 19 in 2015–2019 (+732% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 67 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 1. Lead class F05D accounts for 69.6% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Fujitsu Optical Components Limited (#1,937) and TDK Electronics AG (#1,945).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Nacelles moved from 39 to 127 grants (3.26x 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 #70. See the growth leaderboard.

Fujitsu Optical C…

207
Ideal Industries…

207
Korea Institute O…

207
Magna Closures

207
Showa

207
Sintai Optical (S…

207
Swimc

207
TDK

207
Safran Nacelles ◀

207

What this shows Safran holds 207 patents at rank #1,941, 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 #1,941 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Zebra Technologies Corporation 71 Paypal, Inc. 71 Postech Research and Business Development Foundation 71 Cytiva Sweden AB 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.9 here).

22nd Century Limited, LLC 11.9 avg Anpec Electronics Corporation 11.9 avg LS Electric Co., Ltd. 11.9 avg National Chiao Tung University 11.9 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 Top 1% higher than 99% 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 Nacelles patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	0.5%
2018	10	4.8%
2019	8	3.9%
2020	19	9.2%
2021	12	5.8%
2022	30	14.5%
2023	30	14.5%
2024	67	32.4%
2025partial year	30	14.5%

Which technologies does Safran Nacelles patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 144

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 132

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 111

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 109

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 77

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 30

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 29

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 27

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 20

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 19

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 17

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 12

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 11

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 8

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 6

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,941

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Safran Nacelles's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 69.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #1,941 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Nacelles against Fujitsu Optical Components Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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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