Where does The Boeing Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Boeing Company ranks #26 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 The Boeing Company hold?

The Boeing Company holds 11,922 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 451 technology areas.

What is The Boeing Company's Innovation Score?

The Boeing Company has an Innovation Score of 73.7 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 The Boeing Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Boeing Company's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 The Boeing Company's patents?

The Boeing Company's patents average 19.8 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 The Boeing Company 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 US Corporation

The Boeing Company

Q: What technology areas does The Boeing Company focus on?

The Boeing Company's top technology area is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft) with 2,280 patents, ranking #1 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 451 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11,922 granted patents across 451 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: B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #26 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11,922 patents across 451 technology areas.

#26
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (73.7/100): 19.8
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R26 · US Corporation #26 · 11,922 grants

GRANTS-MEGA · TOP-DECILE · CLEAR-GAP · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MEGA 12K grants
TOP-DECILE #26/49,997
CLEAR-GAP Robert Bosch
CPC-BROAD B64D · 451 areas
INNOV-STRONG 73.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Robert Bosch GmbH (±53 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 The’s 73.7 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 32.4 pts (44%) Velocity 4.4 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ZTE · near

74
Bnsf Railway · near

74
The Boeing · this assignee

74
Roku · near

74
Aurora Operations · near

74
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 73.7/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 19.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Boeing Company received 5,479 grants versus 5,835 in 2015–2019 (-6% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 1,454 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 809. Lead class B64D accounts for 19.1% of the portfolio across 451 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Seiko Epson Corporation (#22) and Cisco Technology, Inc. (#30).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Boeing Company moved from 4,125 to 2,745 grants (0.67x 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 #2,268. See the growth leaderboard.

Seiko Epson

14,235
Panasonic Intelle…

13,148
Toshiba

12,848
Honda Motor

12,454
The Boeing ◀

11,922
Robert Bosch

11,869
GM Global Technol…

11,736
Nike

10,487
Cisco Technology

10,299

What this shows The holds 11,922 patents at rank #26, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #26 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), The ranks #1 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (74 here).

Bnsf Railway Company 74 ZTE Corporation 74 Roku, Inc. 74 Aurora Operations, Inc. 74

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.8 here).

Pismo Labs Technology Limited 19.8 avg Sentons Inc. 19.8 avg Analytics For Life Inc. 19.8 avg Micron Technology, Inc. 19.8 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

74 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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The Boeing Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	980	8.2%
2016	1,052	8.8%
2017	1,178	9.9%
2018	1,234	10.4%
2019	1,391	11.7%
2020	1,454	12.2%
2021	1,280	10.7%
2022	1,097	9.2%
2023	839	7.0%
2024	809	6.8%
2025partial year	608	5.1%

Which technologies does The Boeing Company patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 2,280

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2,268

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 1,808

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1,431

B64F - Ground OR Aircraft-carrier-deck Installations Specially Adapted FOR USE IN Connection With AIRCRAFT; Designing, Manufacturing, Assembling, Cleaning, Maintaining OR Repairing Aircraft, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Handling, Transporting, Testing OR Inspecting Aircraft Components, NOT Otherwise Provide 1,253

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1,081

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,039

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 960

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 815

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 701

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 618

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 516

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 472

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 464

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 463

Top 15 of 451 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

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The Boeing Company's lead technology class is B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft), 19.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #26 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Boeing Company against Seiko Epson Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 73.7/100 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

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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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