Where does Skydio, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skydio, Inc. ranks #2,005 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 Skydio, Inc. hold?

Skydio, Inc. holds 200 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 44 technology areas.

What is Skydio, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Skydio, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 74.0 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Skydio, Inc. focus on?

Skydio, Inc.'s top technology area is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor) with 173 patents, ranking #6 of 545 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 44 CPC subclasses total.

Is Skydio, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Skydio, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +1463% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Skydio, Inc.'s patents?

Skydio, Inc.'s patents average 21.1 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 Skydio, Inc. 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

Skydio, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 200 granted patents across 44 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skydio ranks #2,005 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 200 patents across 44 technology areas.

#2,005
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.0/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: +1463%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2005 · US Corporation #2,005 · 200 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 200 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,005/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Linear Technology…
CPC-WIDE B64U · 44 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1463% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Linear Technology Holding LLC (±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 Skydio’s 74.0 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 18.3 pts (25%) Velocity 19.6 pts (26%) Breadth 23.5 pts (32%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
HL Mando · near

74
Applied Materials · near

74
Skydio · this assignee

74
Waymo · near

74
Wolfspeed · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Skydio's Innovation Score is 74.0/100 (top 1% 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 Skydio?

Each dot is one of Skydio’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). Skydio’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Skydio's grants concentrate

Skydio, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 44 CPC subclasses with 86.5% of grants classified under B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (43 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Skydio sits between Linear Technology Holding LLC and Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC.

Skydio's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Skydio, Inc. moved from 33 to 97 grants (2.94x 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 #83. See the growth leaderboard.

Linear Technology…

200
Megachips

200
Razor USA

200
Signode Industria…

200
Vermeer Manufactu…

200
Skydio ◀

200
Fedex Corporate S…

199
Globeride

199
Kraft Foods Group…

199

What this shows Skydio holds 200 patents at rank #2,005, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skydio

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,005 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV])

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Skydio, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]), Skydio ranks #6 of 545 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Waymo LLC 74 Wolfspeed, Inc. 74 Applied Materials, Inc. 74 HL Mando Corporation 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.1 here).

DSP Group Ltd. 21.1 avg Sonic IP, LLC 21.1 avg Avigilon Fortress Corporation 21.1 avg Anokiwave, Inc. 21.1 avg

Skydio's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Skydio, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	1.0%
2018	1	0.5%
2019	5	2.5%
2020	9	4.5%
2021	19	9.5%
2022	18	9.0%
2023	36	18.0%
2024	43	21.5%
2025partial year	67	33.5%

Which technologies does Skydio, Inc. patent most?

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 173

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 132

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 91

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 64

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 59

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 59

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 54

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 48

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 30

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 24

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 22

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 12

Top 15 of 44 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Skydio, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Skydio, Inc.'s lead technology class is B64U (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor), 86.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64U
Ranked #2,005 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Skydio, Inc. against Linear Technology Holding LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.0/100 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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