Where does Thales Holdings UK Plc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thales Holdings UK Plc ranks #11,466 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 Holdings UK Plc hold?

Thales Holdings UK Plc holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Thales Holdings UK Plc's Innovation Score?

Thales Holdings UK Plc has an Innovation Score of 44.7 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thales Holdings UK Plc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thales Holdings UK Plc's recent grant velocity is -31% 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 Holdings UK Plc's patents?

Thales Holdings UK Plc's patents average 16.4 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 Holdings UK Plc 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 Holdings UK Plc

Q: What technology areas does Thales Holdings UK Plc focus on?

Thales Holdings UK Plc's top technology area is 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) with 7 patents, ranking #747 of 3,153 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: 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 Arra).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thales ranks #11,466 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 32 technology areas.

#11,466
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.7/100): 16.4
avg claims per patent: -31%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11466 · Foreign Corporation #11,466 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,466/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Teledyne e2v…
CPC-FOCUS G01S · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -31% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Teledyne e2v Semiconductors SAS (±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 44.7 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 11.5 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 20.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
B & B Metals · near

45
Caterpillar Global… · near

45
Koko Home · near

45
Sustainable Energy… · near

45
Thales Holdings UK · this assignee

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thales's Innovation Score is 44.7/100 (top 25% 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 16.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Thales's grants concentrate

Thales Holdings UK Plc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 25.9% of grants classified under 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 Arra). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Thales sits between Turkiye Sise VE CAM Fabrikalari Anonim Sirketi and The Dial Corporation.

Thales's three-year grant acceleration

Thales Holdings UK Plc shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Turkiye Sise VE C…

27
Teledyne e2v Semi…

27
Tempo Industries

27
Teradici

27
The AES

27
The Boppy

27
The Boston Consul…

27
The Dial

27
Thales Holdings UK ◀

27

What this shows Thales holds 27 patents at rank #11,479, 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 #11,479 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01S (Radio Direction-finding)

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 G01S (Radio Direction-finding), Thales ranks #747 of 3,153 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Koko Home, Inc. 45 B & B Metals, Inc. 45 Sustainable Energy Solutions, Inc. 45 Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH 45

Thales's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

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 Holdings UK Plc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	18.5%
2016	3	11.1%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	7	25.9%
2020	2	7.4%
2021	3	11.1%
2022	6	22.2%

Which technologies does Thales Holdings UK Plc patent most?

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 7

H04B - Transmission 5

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 4

F41G - Weapon SIGHTS; Aiming 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

F41H - ARMOUR; Armoured TURRETS; Armoured OR Armed VEHICLES; Means OF Attack OR Defence, e.g. Camouflage, IN General 2

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

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 2

G01D - Measuring NOT Specially Adapted FOR A Specific VARIABLE; Arrangements FOR Measuring TWO OR More Variables NOT Covered IN A Single Other SUBCLASS; Tariff Metering APPARATUS; Measuring OR Testing NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 1

H04J - Multiplex Communication 1

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 1

F42C - Ammunition Fuzes ; Arming OR Safety Means Therefor 1

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

Top 15 of 32 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 Holdings UK Plc's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thales Holdings UK Plc's lead technology class is 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 Arra), 25.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #11,466 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thales Holdings UK Plc against Turkiye Sise VE CAM Fabrikalari Anonim Sirketi, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.7/100 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.