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 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 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, ranking #68 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. 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 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 36 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,913
of 49,997 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 #8,913/49,997
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.

How Safran’s 56.9 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 12.5 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (35%) Breadth 15.4 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

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… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 56.9/100 (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 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 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 Seats GB Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 91.7% of grants classified under B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Safran sits between SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GMBH and Shanjin Optoelectronics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd..

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

Safran Seats GB Limited shows 22 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

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). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Safran ranks #68 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

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 49,997 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

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Safran Seats GB Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Seats GB Limited's lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 91.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #8,913 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Seats GB Limited against SKF Lubrication Systems Germany GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.9/100 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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