Where does Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation ranks #723 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 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation hold?

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation holds 631 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 147 technology areas.

What is Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's Innovation Score?

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has an Innovation Score of 56.7 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%).

What technology areas does Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation focus on?

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 405 patents, ranking #7 of 592 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 147 CPC subclasses total.

Is Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's recent grant velocity is -41% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's patents?

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's patents average 14.5 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 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 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

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 631 granted patents across 147 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Sikorsky ranks #723 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 631 patents across 147 technology areas.

#723
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.7/100): 14.5
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R723 · US Corporation #723 · 631 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 631 grants
TOP-DECILE #723/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Continental Teves &…
CPC-WIDE B64C · 147 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (±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 Sikorsky’s 56.7 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 22.3 pts (39%) Velocity 0.8 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.7 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Endress+Hauser SE+ KG · near

57
Sikorsky Aircraft · this assignee

57
Teledyne Flir · near

57
Hach · near

57
Universite De… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sikorsky's Innovation Score is 56.7/100 (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 Sikorsky?

Each dot is one of Sikorsky’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). Sikorsky’s own 14.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Sikorsky vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Sikorsky's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation received 233 grants versus 398 in 2015–2019 (-41% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 152 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 4. Lead class B64C accounts for 64.2% of the portfolio across 147 subclasses. Volume neighbours: The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (#719) and Lennox Industries Inc. (#727).

Sikorsky's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation moved from 346 to 39 grants (0.11x 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 #3,161. See the growth leaderboard.

The Regents of th…

634
Steelcase

632
Continental Teves…

631
Covestro Deutschl…

631
Sikorsky Aircraft ◀

631
Maxim Integrated…

630
Nestec

630
Inventec (Pudong)…

629
Lennox Industries

629

What this shows Sikorsky holds 631 patents at rank #723, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sikorsky

By rank, the assignees closest to #723 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sikorsky, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64C (Aeroplanes), Sikorsky ranks #7 of 592 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Teledyne Flir, LLC 57 Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG 57 Universite De Montpellier 57 Hach Company 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.5 here).

Edwards Limited 14.5 avg Safran Aero Boosters 14.5 avg MTU Aero Engines AG 14.5 avg Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd. 14.5 avg

Sikorsky's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 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 · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	50	7.9%
2016	69	10.9%
2017	56	8.9%
2018	71	11.3%
2019	152	24.1%
2020	149	23.6%
2021	45	7.1%
2022	25	4.0%
2023	10	1.6%
2024	4	0.6%

Which technologies does Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 405

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 197

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 98

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 82

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 67

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 55

F16H - Gearing 54

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 51

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 45

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 43

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 38

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 30

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 27

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 24

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

Top 15 of 147 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

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation's lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 64.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #723 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation against The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.7/100 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

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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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