Where does Safran Seats USA LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Seats USA LLC ranks #2,518 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 USA LLC hold?

Safran Seats USA LLC holds 155 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 39 technology areas.

What is Safran Seats USA LLC's Innovation Score?

Safran Seats USA LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.0 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 USA LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Seats USA LLC's recent grant velocity is +390% 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 USA LLC's patents?

Safran Seats USA LLC's patents average 16.8 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 USA LLC 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 US Corporation

Safran Seats USA LLC

Q: What technology areas does Safran Seats USA LLC focus on?

Safran Seats USA LLC'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 146 patents, ranking #28 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 39 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 155 granted patents across 39 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 #2,518 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 155 patents across 39 technology areas.

#2,518
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: +390%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2518 · US Corporation #2,518 · 155 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 155 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,518/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Idemia Identity &…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 39 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +390% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Idemia Identity & Security France (±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 56.0 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 17.4 pts (31%) Velocity 6.5 pts (12%) Breadth 22.1 pts (39%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Beijing Roborock… · near

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Hangzhou Dianzi… · near

56
Portland State… · near

56
Safran Seats USA · this assignee

56
Interface Optoelectr… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (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 16.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 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 USA LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 39 CPC subclasses with 94.2% 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 (26 grants) versus a trough of 16 in 2022. By volume, Safran sits between Idemia Identity & Security France and CMR Surgical Limited.

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Seats USA LLC moved from 63 to 61 grants (0.97x 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 #1,272. See the growth leaderboard.

Idemia Identity &…

155
Newport Fab

155
Oce- B V

155
ONO Pharmaceutical

155
Tenneco

155
Wilson Sporting G…

155
Safran Seats USA ◀

155
Atlassian

154
CMR Surgical

154

What this shows Safran holds 155 patents at rank #2,518, 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 #2,518 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 #28 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Portland State University 56 Hangzhou Dianzi University 56 Interface Optoelectronics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd. 56 Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Innovation, LLC 16.8 avg Prysmian S.p.A. 16.8 avg Hallmark Cards, Incorporated 16.8 avg Rhodia Operations 16.8 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 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 USA LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	21	13.5%
2020	24	15.5%
2021	18	11.6%
2022	16	10.3%
2023	19	12.3%
2024	26	16.8%
2025partial year	31	20.0%

Which technologies does Safran Seats USA LLC patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 146

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 110

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 21

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 10

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 9

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 9

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 5

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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 3

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

Top 15 of 39 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 USA LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Seats USA LLC'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), 94.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #2,518 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Seats USA LLC against Idemia Identity & Security France, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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.

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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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