Where does Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. ranks #2,780 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 Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. hold?

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. holds 139 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.3 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +48% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.'s patents average 17.2 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 Spirit AeroSystems, 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

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. focus on?

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 65 patents, ranking #92 of 4,378 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 139 granted patents across 63 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Spirit ranks #2,780 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 139 patents across 63 technology areas.

#2,780
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.3/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2780 · US Corporation #2,780 · 139 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 139 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,780/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nanjing University…
CPC-WIDE B29C · 63 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (±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 Spirit’s 61.3 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 17.1 pts (28%) Velocity 9.0 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Momentive Performanc… · near

61
Spirit AeroSystems · this assignee

61
Drexel University · near

61
Rensselaer Polytechn… · near

61
Sensormatic · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Spirit's Innovation Score is 61.3/100 (top 3% 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 Spirit?

Each dot is one of Spirit’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). Spirit’s own 17.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Spirit's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. received 77 grants versus 52 in 2015–2019 (+48% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 19 grants and bottomed in 2019 at 5. Lead class B29C accounts for 46.8% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. (#2,776) and Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (#2,784).

Spirit's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. moved from 35 to 47 grants (1.34x 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 #590. See the growth leaderboard.

Nuovo Pignone Tec…

139
Nanjing Universit…

139
Pentair Water Poo…

139
Softbank

139
Spirit Aerosystems ◀

139
Avigilon

138
Cal-comp & Commun…

138
Calsonic Kansei

138
Claas Selbstfahre…

138

What this shows Spirit holds 139 patents at rank #2,780, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Spirit

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,780 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Spirit, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B29C (Shaping OR Joining OF Plastics), Spirit ranks #92 of 4,378 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Momentive Performance Materials GmbH 61 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 61 Drexel University 61 Sensormatic Electronics, LLC 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

International Paper Company 17.2 avg Allscripts Software, LLC 17.2 avg Sling Media L.L.C. 17.2 avg Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc. 17.2 avg

Spirit's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 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.

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Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	11.5%
2016	11	7.9%
2017	10	7.2%
2018	10	7.2%
2019	5	3.6%
2020	19	13.7%
2021	11	7.9%
2022	18	12.9%
2023	19	13.7%
2024	10	7.2%
2025partial year	10	7.2%

Which technologies does Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. patent most?

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 65

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 30

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 26

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 25

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 22

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 20

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 19

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 18

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 17

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 16

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 12

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 12

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 11

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

C22C - Alloys 6

Top 15 of 63 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

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

Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 46.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B29C
Ranked #2,780 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. against Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.3/100 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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