Where does Safran Seats rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Seats ranks #5,878 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 hold?

Safran Seats holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Safran Seats's Innovation Score?

Safran Seats has an Innovation Score of 47.5 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Safran Seats's recent grant velocity is +1367% 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's patents?

Safran Seats's patents average 12.6 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 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

Q: What technology areas does Safran Seats focus on?

Safran Seats'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 52 patents, ranking #57 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 16 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 #5,878 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,878
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.5/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +1367%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5878 · Foreign Corporation #5,878 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,878/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sartorius Stedim…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1367% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sartorius Stedim FMT SAS (±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 47.5 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 14.1 pts (30%) Velocity 11.8 pts (25%) Breadth 14.1 pts (30%) Claim depth 7.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Core Scientific · near

48
Fair Isaac · near

48
Flexenable · near

48
Ivanti · near

48
Safran Seats · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 47.5/100 (top 18% 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 12.6 claims/patent is at or below the 14.4 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.

Where Safran's grants concentrate

Safran Seats is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 89.7% 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 (16 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2019. By volume, Safran sits between Seoul National University Hospital and Sony Europe Limited.

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

Safran Seats shows 30 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

Seoul National Un…

58
Soft Robotics

58
Solarflare Commun…

58
Sorel

58
Sartorius Stedim…

58
Seasonal Specialt…

58
Sony Computer Ent…

58
Sony Europe

58
Safran Seats ◀

58

What this shows Safran holds 58 patents at rank #5,884, 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 #5,884 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 #57 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Flexenable Limited 48 Ivanti, Inc. 48 Core Scientific, Inc. 48 Fair Isaac Corporation 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.6 here).

Purple Innovation, LLC 12.6 avg GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH 12.6 avg Esab AB 12.6 avg Zurn Industries, LLC 12.6 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	3	5.2%
2020	10	17.2%
2021	4	6.9%
2022	7	12.1%
2023	7	12.1%
2024	16	27.6%
2025partial year	11	19.0%

Which technologies does Safran Seats patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 52

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 21

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

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

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 1

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 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Top 15 of 16 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

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Safran Seats'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), 89.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #5,878 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Seats against Seoul National University Hospital, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.5/100 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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