Where does Safran rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Safran ranks #1,290 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 hold?

Safran holds 328 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 132 technology areas.

What is Safran's Innovation Score?

Safran has an Innovation Score of 62.9 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Safran's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Safran's recent grant velocity is +582% 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's patents?

Safran's patents average 11.7 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 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

Q: What technology areas does Safran focus on?

Safran'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 127 patents, ranking #31 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 132 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 328 granted patents across 132 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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 #1,290 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 328 patents across 132 technology areas.

#1,290
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.9/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent: +582%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1290 · Foreign Corporation #1,290 · 328 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 328 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,290/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alpha and Omega…
CPC-WIDE F05D · 132 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.9/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +582% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alpha and Omega Semiconductor, Ltd. (±1 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 62.9 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 20.0 pts (32%) Velocity 10.9 pts (17%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Shenzhen Goodix… · near

63
Cargill Incorporated · near

63
Nippon Steel · near

63
Safran · this assignee

63
Richtek Technology · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Safran's Innovation Score is 62.9/100 (top 2% 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 11.7 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 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.

How Safran's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Safran received 232 grants versus 34 in 2015–2019 (+582% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 69 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class F05D accounts for 38.7% of the portfolio across 132 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Monolithic 3D Inc. (#1,286) and University of Houston System (#1,294).

Safran's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Safran moved from 94 to 154 grants (1.64x 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 #353. See the growth leaderboard.

Monolithic 3D

329
Quest Diagnostics…

329
Sew-eurodrive & KG

329
Yissum Research D…

329
Safran ◀

328
Alpha and Omega S…

327
Brother Industries

327
Medimmune

327
University of Hou…

327

What this shows Safran holds 328 patents at rank #1,290, 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 #1,290 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). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), Safran ranks #31 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Cargill, Incorporated 63 Nippon Steel Corporation 63 Richtek Technology Corporation 63 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.7 here).

Dongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation 11.7 avg National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University 11.7 avg Societe D'exploitation DE Produits Pour LES Industries Chimiques Seppic 11.7 avg Olympus Winter & IBE GMBH 11.6 avg

Safran's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Safran patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	0.6%
2016	4	1.2%
2017	5	1.5%
2018	7	2.1%
2019	16	4.9%
2020	30	9.1%
2021	48	14.6%
2022	40	12.2%
2023	45	13.7%
2024	69	21.0%
2025partial year	62	18.9%

Which technologies does Safran patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 127

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 102

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 87

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 67

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 54

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 49

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 44

B22C - Foundry Moulding 28

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 27

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 27

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 26

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 25

C22C - Alloys 25

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 25

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 24

Top 15 of 132 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's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Safran's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 38.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #1,290 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Safran against Monolithic 3D Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.9/100 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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