Where does SKF Aerospace France S.A.S rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SKF Aerospace France S.A.S ranks #7,479 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 SKF Aerospace France S.A.S hold?

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S holds 44 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's Innovation Score?

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S has an Innovation Score of 50.4 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's recent grant velocity is +240% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's patents?

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's patents average 11.5 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 SKF Aerospace France S.A.S 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

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S

Q: What technology areas does SKF Aerospace France S.A.S focus on?

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's top technology area is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings) with 32 patents, ranking #42 of 1,334 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 44 granted patents across 33 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, SKF ranks #7,479 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 44 patents across 33 technology areas.

#7,479
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 11.5
avg claims per patent: +240%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7479 · Foreign Corporation #7,479 · 44 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 44 grants
UPPER-Q #7,479/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saint-Gobain Placo
CPC-FOCUS F16C · 33 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +240% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saint-Gobain Placo (±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 SKF’s 50.4 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 13.1 pts (26%) Velocity 10.0 pts (20%) Breadth 20.3 pts (40%) Claim depth 6.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DRS Network &… · near

50
Itron Global Sarl · near

50
SKF Aerospace France S · this assignee

50
CTS · near

50
University of Macau · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SKF's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (top 13% 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 SKF?

Each dot is one of SKF’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). SKF’s own 11.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where SKF's grants concentrate

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 72.7% of grants classified under F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, SKF sits between SFS Intec Holding AG and Saint-Gobain Placo.

SKF's three-year grant acceleration

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

SFS Intec Holding

44
Shenzhen Sensetim…

44
Shenzhen Uvled Op…

44
Sirona Dental Sys…

44
Socpra Sciences E…

44
SR Holdings

44
SUN Pharma Advanc…

44
Saint-gobain Placo

44
SKF Aerospace Fra… ◀

44

What this shows SKF holds 44 patents at rank #7,475, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SKF

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,475 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16C (Shafts)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SKF, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F16C (Shafts), SKF ranks #42 of 1,334 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Itron Global Sarl 50 DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC 50 University of Macau 50 CTS Corporation 50

SKF's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SKF Aerospace France S.A.S patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	9.1%
2017	4	9.1%
2018	1	2.3%
2019	1	2.3%
2020	5	11.4%
2021	8	18.2%
2022	11	25.0%
2023	7	15.9%
2024	3	6.8%

Which technologies does SKF Aerospace France S.A.S patent most?

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 32

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 9

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B60G - Vehicle Suspension Arrangements 5

B62D - Motor VEHICLES; Trailers 4

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 3

F01D - Non-positive Displacement Machines OR Engines, e.g. Steam Turbines 3

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 3

C22C - Alloys 3

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 2

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 2

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 2

Top 15 of 33 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

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SKF Aerospace France S.A.S's lead technology class is F16C (SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings), 72.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16C
Ranked #7,479 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SKF Aerospace France S.A.S against SFS Intec Holding AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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

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