Where does Thales Canada Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thales Canada Inc. ranks #6,192 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 Canada Inc. hold?

Thales Canada Inc. holds 55 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Thales Canada Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Thales Canada Inc. has an Innovation Score of 66.5 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%).

Is Thales Canada Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thales Canada Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Thales Canada Inc.'s patents?

Thales Canada Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 Thales Canada 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 Foreign Corporation

Thales Canada Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Thales Canada Inc. focus on?

Thales Canada Inc.'s top technology area is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic) with 36 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 55 granted patents across 35 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: B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thales ranks #6,192 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 55 patents across 35 technology areas.

#6,192
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (66.5/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6192 · Foreign Corporation #6,192 · 55 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 55 grants
UPPER-Q #6,192/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sigmastar Technology
CPC-FOCUS B61L · 35 areas
INNOV-STRONG 66.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sigmastar Technology Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Tmeic · near

67
Sanofi · near

67
Sony OF America · near

67
Thales Canada · this assignee

67
Advanced Neuromodula… · near

67
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thales's Innovation Score is 66.5/100 (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.

Where Thales's grants concentrate

Thales Canada Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 65.5% of grants classified under B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Thales sits between Sigmastar Technology Ltd. and The North Face Apparel Corp..

Thales's three-year grant acceleration

Thales Canada Inc. shows 21 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Sigmastar Technol…

55
Sonitor AS

55
Southern Universi…

55
Stamford Devices

55
The 41st Parameter

55
The Jackson Labor…

55
The Libman

55
The North Face Ap…

55
Thales Canada ◀

55

What this shows Thales holds 55 patents at rank #6,191, 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 #6,191 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B61L (Guiding Railway Traffic)

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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (67 here).

Sony Corporation OF America 67 Sanofi 67 Tmeic Corporation 67 Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. 67

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Fluidigm Corporation 19.5 avg SanDisk 3D LLC 19.5 avg Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 19.5 avg AIC Innovations Group, Inc. 19.5 avg

Thales's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

67 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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Thales Canada Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	21.8%
2016	12	21.8%
2017	3	5.5%
2018	1	1.8%
2019	2	3.6%
2020	2	3.6%
2021	1	1.8%
2022	8	14.5%
2023	11	20.0%
2024	2	3.6%
2025partial year	1	1.8%

Which technologies does Thales Canada Inc. patent most?

B61L - Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic 36

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 10

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 9

G01P - Measuring Linear OR Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, OR SHOCK; Indicating Presence, Absence, OR Direction, OF Movement 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 4

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 3

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 3

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 2

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2

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 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,192

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

66.5 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

Thales Canada Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thales Canada Inc.'s lead technology class is B61L (Guiding Railway TRAFFIC; Ensuring THE Safety OF Railway Traffic), 65.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B61L
Ranked #6,192 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thales Canada Inc. against Sigmastar Technology Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 66.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.