Where does Textron Innovations Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Textron Innovations Inc. ranks #312 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 Textron Innovations Inc. hold?

Textron Innovations Inc. holds 1,370 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 222 technology areas.

What is Textron Innovations Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Textron Innovations Inc. has an Innovation Score of 70.6 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 Textron Innovations Inc. focus on?

Textron Innovations Inc.'s top technology area is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters) with 892 patents. Grants appear in 222 CPC subclasses total.

Is Textron Innovations Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Textron Innovations Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +311% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Textron Innovations Inc.'s patents?

Textron Innovations Inc.'s patents average 16.3 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 Textron Innovations 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

Textron Innovations Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,370 granted patents across 222 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: B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Textron ranks #312 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,370 patents across 222 technology areas.

#312
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: +311%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R312 · US Corporation #312 · 1,370 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #312/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hubbell Incorporated
CPC-BROAD B64C · 222 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +311% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hubbell Incorporated (±1 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chengdu Qinchuan… · near

71
Textron Innovations · this assignee

71
Toshiba · near

71
Toyota Jidosha · near

71
Volvo Truck · near

71
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Textron's Innovation Score is 70.6/100 (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.

How Textron's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Textron Innovations Inc. received 1,002 grants versus 244 in 2015–2019 (+311% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 245 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 36. Lead class B64C accounts for 65.1% of the portfolio across 222 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC (#308) and Delta Faucet Company (#316).

Textron's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Textron Innovations Inc. moved from 400 to 648 grants (1.62x 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 #364. See the growth leaderboard.

Baker Hughes a GE

1,390
Cirrus Logic

1,385
Macronix Internat…

1,381
Semiconductor Man…

1,373
Textron Innovatio… ◀

1,370
Hubbell Incorpora…

1,369
University of Flo…

1,362
Qorvo US

1,359
Delta Faucet

1,351

What this shows Textron holds 1,370 patents at rank #312, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Textron

By rank, the assignees closest to #312 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64C (Aeroplanes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Textron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (71 here).

Volvo Truck Corporation 71 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 71 Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha 71 Chengdu Qinchuan IOT Technology Co., Ltd. 71

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

Globus Medical, Inc. 16.3 avg Byk-chemie GMBH 16.3 avg Coatex 16.3 avg ABL IP Holding LLC 16.3 avg

Textron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

71 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 · 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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Textron Innovations Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	69	5.0%
2016	56	4.1%
2017	37	2.7%
2018	36	2.6%
2019	46	3.4%
2020	148	10.8%
2021	206	15.0%
2022	228	16.6%
2023	245	17.9%
2024	175	12.8%
2025partial year	124	9.1%

Which technologies does Textron Innovations Inc. patent most?

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 892

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 539

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 249

B64U - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV]; Equipment Therefor 177

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 139

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 102

F16H - Gearing 88

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 82

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 60

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 55

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 49

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 48

F16F - SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; Means FOR Damping Vibration 45

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 44

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 43

Top 15 of 222 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#312

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Textron Innovations Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Textron Innovations Inc.'s lead technology class is B64C (AEROPLANES; Helicopters), 65.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64C
Ranked #312 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Textron Innovations Inc. against Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.6/100 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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