Where does Special Aerospace Services, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Special Aerospace Services, LLC ranks #43,256 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 Special Aerospace Services, LLC hold?

Special Aerospace Services, LLC holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2021 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Special Aerospace Services, LLC's Innovation Score?

Special Aerospace Services, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.1 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Special Aerospace Services, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Special Aerospace Services, LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Special Aerospace Services, LLC's patents?

Special Aerospace Services, LLC's patents average 20.0 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 Special Aerospace Services, 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

Special Aerospace Services, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Special Aerospace Services, LLC focus on?

Special Aerospace Services, LLC'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 6 patents, ranking #190 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2021–2024. 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: 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, Special ranks #43,256 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 7 technology areas.

#43,256
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100): 20.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43256 · US Corporation #43,256 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,256/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sparton
CPC-NARROW F05D · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2021–2024 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sparton Corporation (±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 Special’s 48.1 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 6.7 pts (14%) Velocity 20.0 pts (42%) Breadth 9.4 pts (20%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Special Aerospace… · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Special's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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 Special?

Each dot is one of Special’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). Special’s own 20.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Special's grants concentrate

Special Aerospace Services, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Special sits between Sparton Corporation and Speedy Packets, Inc..

Special's three-year grant acceleration

Special Aerospace Services, LLC shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Sparton

6
Sparx Smartpods

6
Sparxteq

6
Spec Arms

6
Specter Ops

6
Spectrum Products

6
Spee-dee Packagin…

6
Speedy Packets

6
Special Aerospace… ◀

6

What this shows Special holds 6 patents at rank #43,328, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Special

By rank, the assignees closest to #43,328 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Special's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2021–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2021–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Special Aerospace Services, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2021	1	16.7%
2023	3	50.0%
2024	2	33.3%

Which technologies does Special Aerospace Services, LLC patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 6

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 6

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 3

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 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

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

Top 7 of 7 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

Special Aerospace Services, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Special Aerospace Services, LLC's lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #43,256 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Special Aerospace Services, LLC against Sparton Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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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