Where does Safran Transmission Systems rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran Transmission Systems ranks #2,666 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 Transmission Systems hold?

Safran Transmission Systems holds 146 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Safran Transmission Systems's Innovation Score?

Safran Transmission Systems has an Innovation Score of 56.3 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 Transmission Systems's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran Transmission Systems's recent grant velocity is +700% 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 Transmission Systems's patents?

Safran Transmission Systems'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 Transmission Systems 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 Transmission Systems

Q: What technology areas does Safran Transmission Systems focus on?

Safran Transmission Systems'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 123 patents. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 146 granted patents across 37 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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 #2,666 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 146 patents across 37 technology areas.

#2,666
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.3/100): 12.6
avg claims per patent: +700%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2666 · Foreign Corporation #2,666 · 146 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 146 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,666/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kohler Mira
CPC-FOCUS F05D · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +700% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kohler Mira 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
Adeka · near

56
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

56
Newfrey · near

56
Safran Transmission… · this assignee

56
Technische Universit… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 56.3/100 (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.

Where Safran's grants concentrate

Safran Transmission Systems is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 84.2% of grants classified under F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (30 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2018. By volume, Safran sits between Kohler Mira Limited and Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc..

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran Transmission Systems moved from 53 to 79 grants (1.49x 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 #455. See the growth leaderboard.

Kohler Mira

146
Reliance Industri…

146
Rohm and Haas Mat…

146
Roquette Freres

146
Shenzhen Royole

146
Spin Memory

146
Samsonite IP Hold…

146
Sangamo Therapeut…

146
Safran Transmissi… ◀

146

What this shows Safran holds 146 patents at rank #2,666, 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 #2,666 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 (56 here).

Newfrey LLC 56 Adeka Corporation 56 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. 56 Technische Universiteit Delft 56

Similar claim depth

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

Csmc Technologies Fab2 Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd. 12.6 avg Syngenta Participations AG 12.6 avg Wyatt Technology, 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)

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 · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Safran Transmission Systems patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	3	2.1%
2019	12	8.2%
2020	15	10.3%
2021	26	17.8%
2022	28	19.2%
2023	21	14.4%
2024	30	20.5%
2025partial year	11	7.5%

Which technologies does Safran Transmission Systems patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 123

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 121

F16H - Gearing 116

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 64

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 36

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 26

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 21

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 11

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 7

F16N - Lubricating 7

F04D - Non-positive-displacement Pumps 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 4

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 3

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 3

Top 15 of 37 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,666

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.3 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 Transmission Systems's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran Transmission Systems's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 84.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #2,666 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran Transmission Systems against Kohler Mira Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.3/100 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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