Where does Sierra Nevada Company, Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sierra Nevada Company, Llc ranks #7,192 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Sierra Nevada Company, Llc hold?

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's Innovation Score?

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Sierra Nevada Company, Llc focus on?

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS) with 10 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's recent grant velocity is +114% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's patents?

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's patents average 17.4 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 Sierra Nevada Company, 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

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 35 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sierra ranks #7,192 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 35 technology areas.

#7,192
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +114%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7192 · US Corporation #7,192 · 46 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,192/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Scientific Design
CPC-FOCUS B64C · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +114% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Scientific Design Company, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ferring B v · near

53
Grammarly · near

53
Iteris · near

53
Liebherr-aerospace L… · near

53
Sierra Nevada · this assignee

53
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Sierra Nevada Company, Llc stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-SURGE, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #7,192 of 50,000; Innovation Score 52.6/100 sits in the top 10% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Scientific Design Company, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc has been granted 46 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Sierra Nevada Company, Llc at #7,192 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 35 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 17.4 claims per patent with primary concentration in B64C (AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS). As a US Corporation, Sierra Nevada Company, Llc is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Sierra sits between Sukup Manufacturing Co. (46 patents, rank #7,193) and THE J. David Gladstone Institutes (46 patents, rank #7,201) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 52.6/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 30 grants, compared with 14 in the 2015–2019 window, a +114% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Sierra Nevada Company, Llc's 17.4 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 35 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Sukup Manufacturi…

46
Sumitomo Electric…

46
Scientific Design

46
Secureworks

46
Sonatus

46
Taylor Commercial…

46
TDW Delaware

46
THE J David Glads…

46
Sierra Nevada ◀

46

What this shows Sierra holds 46 patents at rank #7,197, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sierra

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,197 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Sierra's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sierra, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Iteris, Inc. 53 Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg Gmbh 53 Grammarly, Inc. 53 Ferring B.v. 53

Sierra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 50,000 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.

View data table

Sierra Nevada Company, Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.2%
2016	3	6.5%
2017	4	8.7%
2018	3	6.5%
2019	3	6.5%
2020	5	10.9%
2021	7	15.2%
2022	1	2.2%
2023	10	21.7%
2024	7	15.2%
2025partial year	2	4.3%

Which technologies does Sierra Nevada Company, Llc patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS 10

B64D - EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT SUITS; PARACHUTES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSION TRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT 10

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 10

B64U - UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES [UAV]; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR 9

H01Q - ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS 8

Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION 5

G06Q - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 4

H04B - TRANSMISSION 4

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 4

G08G - TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS 4

G06T - IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL 4

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 3

G01C - MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY 3

B29L - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,192

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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