Where does Thales SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thales SA ranks #43,582 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 SA hold?

Thales SA holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Thales SA's Innovation Score?

Thales SA has an Innovation Score of 44.0 out of 100 (top 27% 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 SA focus on?

Thales SA's top technology area is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models) with 6 patents, ranking #1,229 of 4,479 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Thales SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Thales SA.

What does claim depth mean for Thales SA's patents?

Thales SA's patents average 17.0 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 SA 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 SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2024. 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: G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Thales ranks #43,582 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 4 technology areas.

#43,582
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (44.0/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R43582 · Foreign Corporation #43,582 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #43,582/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Texas Biomedical…
CPC-NARROW G06N · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2024 · 3y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Texas Biomedical Research Institute (±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 44.0 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 6.7 pts (15%) Velocity 20.0 pts (45%) Breadth 7.1 pts (16%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (23%)

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What this shows Thales's Innovation Score is 44.0/100 (top 27% 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 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.8 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 SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Thales sits between Texas Biomedical Research Institute and THE Better Meat Co..

Thales's three-year grant acceleration

Thales SA shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

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What this shows Thales holds 6 patents at rank #43,511, 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 #43,511 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Mo…)

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

Thales's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thales SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	16.7%
2023	4	66.7%
2024	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Thales SA patent most?

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Thales SA's lead technology class is G06N (Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06N
Ranked #43,582 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thales SA against Texas Biomedical Research Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.0/100 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

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.