Where does Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio ranks #9,640 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 Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio hold?

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio holds 33 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's Innovation Score?

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio has an Innovation Score of 49.0 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio focus on?

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's top technology area is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor) with 12 patents, ranking #22 of 230 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's recent grant velocity is +111% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's patents?

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's patents average 12.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio

Q: How is the Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio 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 PatentsView assignee record - 33 granted patents across 34 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: B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thales ranks #9,640 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 33 patents across 34 technology areas.

#9,640
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.0/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +111%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9640 · Foreign Corporation #9,640 · 33 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 33 grants
UPPER-Q #9,640/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Telcordia
CPC-FOCUS B64G · 34 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +111% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (±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 Thales’s 49.0 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 12.2 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (18%) Breadth 20.6 pts (42%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
GlaxoSmithKline · near

49
Immunogen · near

49
Manicka Institute · near

49
Thales Alenia Space… · this assignee

49
Nidec GPM · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thales's Innovation Score is 49.0/100 (top 15% 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 Thales?

Each dot is one of Thales’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). Thales’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Thales's grants concentrate

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 36.4% of grants classified under B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Thales sits between Tosense, Inc. and The Lovesac Company.

Thales's three-year grant acceleration

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio shows 12 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Tosense

33
Truma Geraetetech…

33
Telcordia

33
Textron Systems

33
The Henry Group

33
The Joan and Irwi…

33
The Kansai Electr…

33
The Lovesac

33
Thales Alenia Spa… ◀

33

What this shows Thales holds 33 patents at rank #9,647, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thales

By rank, the assignees closest to #9,647 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64G (Cosmonautics)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thales, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64G (Cosmonautics), Thales ranks #22 of 230 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Manicka Institute LLC 49 GlaxoSmithKline LLC 49 Immunogen, Inc. 49 Nidec GPM GMBH 49

Thales's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	6.1%
2016	1	3.0%
2018	4	12.1%
2019	2	6.1%
2020	4	12.1%
2021	3	9.1%
2022	6	18.2%
2023	2	6.1%
2024	4	12.1%
2025partial year	5	15.2%

Which technologies does Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio patent most?

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 12

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 12

H04B - Transmission 5

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 3

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H04Q - Selecting 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 1

Top 15 of 34 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

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio's lead technology class is B64G (COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor), 36.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64G
Ranked #9,640 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio against Tosense, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.0/100 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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