Where does Safran Seats GB Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Seats GB Limited ranks #8,913 of 50,000 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 Seats GB Limited hold?

Safran Seats GB Limited holds 36 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Safran Seats GB Limited's Innovation Score?

Safran Seats GB Limited has an Innovation Score of 56.9 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%).

Is Safran Seats GB Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Seats GB Limited's recent grant velocity is +2300% 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 Seats GB Limited's patents?

Safran Seats GB Limited'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 Seats GB Limited 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 Seats GB Limited

Q: What technology areas does Safran Seats GB Limited focus on?

Safran Seats GB Limited's top technology area is B64D (EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT) with 33 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 36 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: B64D (EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Safran ranks #8,913 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,913
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.9/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +2300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8913 · Foreign Corporation #8,913 · 36 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 36 grants
UPPER-Q #8,913/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Security People
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +2300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Security People, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Velico Medical · near

57
Buckman Laboratories… · near

57
Lufthansa Technik · near

57
Safran Seats GB · this assignee

57
SKY TECH · near

57
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran Seats GB Limited stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #8,913 of 50,000; Innovation Score 56.9/100 sits in the top 6% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Security People, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Safran Seats GB Limited has been granted 36 US utility patents between 2019 and 2025, placing Safran Seats GB Limited at #8,913 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 19 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 15.0 claims per patent with primary concentration in B64D (EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT). As a Foreign Corporation, Safran Seats GB Limited is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Safran sits between SKF Lubrication Systems Germany Gmbh (36 patents, rank #8,917) and Shanjin Optoelectronics (suzhou) Co., Ltd. (36 patents, rank #8,925) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 56.9/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 24 grants, compared with 1 in the 2015–2019 window, a +2300% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Safran Seats GB Limited's 15.0 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 19 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

SKF Lubrication S…

36
Sogang University…

36
South China Norma…

36
Swiss Krono Tec

36
Security People

36
Sense Labs

36
Shanghai Neusoft…

36
Shanjin Optoelect…

36
Safran Seats GB ◀

36

What this shows Safran holds 36 patents at rank #8,921, 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 #8,921 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

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 (57 here).

Buckman Laboratories International, Inc. 57 SKY TECH Inc. 57 Lufthansa Technik Ag 57 Velico Medical Inc. 57

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 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Safran Seats GB Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	2.8%
2020	1	2.8%
2021	1	2.8%
2022	8	22.2%
2023	3	8.3%
2024	11	30.6%
2025partial year	11	30.6%

Which technologies does Safran Seats GB Limited patent most?

B64D - EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT 33

B60N - SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 8

E05Y - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF 3

E05D - HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS 3

E05C - BOLTS OR FASTENING DEVICES FOR WINGS, SPECIALLY FOR DOORS OR WINDOWS 3

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS 3

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 2

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 2

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 2

E05B - LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS 2

A47G - HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT 1

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 1

Y04S - SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS 1

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 1

H01B - CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,913

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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