Where does Thompson Aero Seating Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thompson Aero Seating Limited ranks #19,256 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 Thompson Aero Seating Limited hold?

Thompson Aero Seating Limited holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Thompson Aero Seating Limited's Innovation Score?

Thompson Aero Seating Limited has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thompson Aero Seating Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thompson Aero Seating Limited's recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Thompson Aero Seating Limited's patents?

Thompson Aero Seating Limited's patents average 19.2 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 Thompson Aero Seating Limited 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

Thompson Aero Seating Limited

Q: What technology areas does Thompson Aero Seating Limited focus on?

Thompson Aero Seating Limited'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 15 patents, ranking #113 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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, Thompson ranks #19,256 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 13 technology areas.

#19,256
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 19.2
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19256 · Foreign Corporation #19,256 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #19,256/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The University of…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (±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 Thompson’s 38.3 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 9.6 pts (25%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 12.7 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.5 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Thompson Aero Seating · this assignee

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What this shows Thompson's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Thompson?

Each dot is one of Thompson’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). Thompson’s own 19.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Thompson's grants concentrate

Thompson Aero Seating Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Thompson sits between The University of Wyoming Research Corporation and Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd.

Thompson's three-year grant acceleration

Thompson Aero Seating Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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 Thompson holds 15 patents at rank #19,270, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thompson

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,270 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Thompson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Thompson Aero Seating Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	13.3%
2018	1	6.7%
2019	1	6.7%
2020	4	26.7%
2021	1	6.7%
2022	1	6.7%
2024	3	20.0%
2025partial year	2	13.3%

Which technologies does Thompson Aero Seating Limited patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 15

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

E05Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses E05d AND E05f, Relating TO Construction Elements, Electric Control, Power Supply, Power Signal OR Transmission, User Interfaces, Mounting OR Coupling, Details, Accessories, Auxiliary Operations NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Application Thereof 4

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 3

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 3

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 2

E05D - Hinges OR Suspension Devices FOR Doors, Windows OR Wings 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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

B68G - Methods, Equipment, OR Machines FOR USE IN UPHOLSTERING; Upholstery NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

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 1

E05F - Devices FOR Moving Wings Into Open OR Closed POSITION; Checks FOR WINGS; Wing Fittings NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, Concerned With THE Functioning OF THE Wing 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Thompson Aero Seating Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thompson Aero Seating Limited'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #19,256 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thompson Aero Seating Limited against The University of Wyoming Research Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 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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