Where does Thales rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thales ranks #305 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 hold?

Thales holds 1,398 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 189 technology areas.

What is Thales's Innovation Score?

Thales has an Innovation Score of 61.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thales's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thales's recent grant velocity is -36% 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's patents?

Thales's patents average 11.8 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 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

Q: What technology areas does Thales focus on?

Thales'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 264 patents. Grants appear in 189 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,398 granted patents across 189 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: 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 #305 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,398 patents across 189 technology areas.

#305
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: -36%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R305 · Foreign Corporation #305 · 1,398 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #305/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nintendo
CPC-WIDE G01S · 189 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -36% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (±2 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
Bloom Energy · near

61
Olympus Winter & IBE · near

61
University OF South… · near

61
Research Institute… · near

61
Thales · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thales's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (top 3% 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 Thales's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Thales received 516 grants versus 811 in 2015–2019 (-36% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 182 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 70. Lead class G01S accounts for 18.9% of the portfolio across 189 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Tata Consultancy Services Limited (#301) and Cirrus Logic, Inc. (#309).

Thales's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thales moved from 417 to 249 grants (0.60x 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 #2,453. See the growth leaderboard.

Tata Consultancy…

1,429
Motorola Mobility

1,427
Beijing BOE Displ…

1,414
The Yokohama Rubb…

1,405
Thales ◀

1,398
Nintendo

1,396
Sabic Global B V

1,394
Baker Hughes a GE

1,390
Cirrus Logic

1,385

What this shows Thales holds 1,398 patents at rank #305, 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 #305 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Research Institute OF Petroleum Processing, Sinopec 61 University OF South Carolina 61 Bloom Energy Corporation 61 Olympus Winter & IBE GMBH 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Daicel Corporation 11.8 avg Nidec Sankyo Corporation 11.8 avg PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS 11.8 avg Safran Electrical & Power 11.8 avg

Thales's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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 patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	164	11.7%
2016	157	11.2%
2017	182	13.0%
2018	158	11.3%
2019	150	10.7%
2020	156	11.2%
2021	111	7.9%
2022	99	7.1%
2023	80	5.7%
2024	70	5.0%
2025partial year	71	5.1%

Which technologies does Thales 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 264

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 193

H04B - Transmission 165

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 162

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 159

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 159

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 132

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 115

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 103

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 97

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 92

B64G - COSMONAUTICS; Vehicles OR Equipment Therefor 70

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 61

H01P - WAVEGUIDES; Resonators, Lines, OR Other Devices OF THE Waveguide Type 57

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 50

Top 15 of 189 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#305

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

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

Thales'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), 18.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01S
Ranked #305 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thales against Tata Consultancy Services Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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