Where does United Airlines, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), United Airlines, Inc. ranks #13,224 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 United Airlines, Inc. hold?

United Airlines, Inc. holds 23 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is United Airlines, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

United Airlines, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.5 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is United Airlines, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

United Airlines, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for United Airlines, Inc.'s patents?

United Airlines, Inc.'s patents average 16.0 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 United Airlines, Inc. 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

United Airlines, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does United Airlines, Inc. focus on?

United Airlines, Inc.'s top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 12 patents, ranking #1,065 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 23 granted patents across 15 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, United ranks #13,224 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 23 patents across 15 technology areas.

#13,224
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.5/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13224 · US Corporation #13,224 · 23 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 23 grants
MID-PACK #13,224/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tyco Brasil Ltda
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 15 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tyco Electronics Brasil Ltda (±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 United’s 46.5 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 11.0 pts (24%) Velocity 12.2 pts (26%) Breadth 13.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Infineum International · near

46
Newport · near

46
Sercomm · near

46
Sunstar Engineering · near

46
United Airlines · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows United's Innovation Score is 46.5/100 (top 21% 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 United?

Each dot is one of United’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). United’s own 16.0 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where United's grants concentrate

United Airlines, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 52.2% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, United sits between Tyco Electronics Brasil Ltda and University OF Windsor.

United's three-year grant acceleration

United Airlines, Inc. shows 11 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.

Tyco Brasil Ltda

23
Tyco Svenska AB

23
U S Bancorp Natio…

23
UCB Pharma

23
Universitetet I O…

23
University FOR At…

23
University OF Cal…

23
University OF Win…

23
United Airlines ◀

23

What this shows United holds 23 patents at rank #13,218, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near United

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,218 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for United, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), United ranks #1,065 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Sunstar Engineering Inc. 46 Newport Corporation 46 Sercomm Corporation 46 Infineum International Limited 46

United's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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United Airlines, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	4.3%
2017	3	13.0%
2019	3	13.0%
2020	1	4.3%
2021	2	8.7%
2023	5	21.7%
2024	6	26.1%
2025partial year	2	8.7%

Which technologies does United Airlines, Inc. patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 6

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

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

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 1

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Top 15 of 15 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

United Airlines, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

United Airlines, Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 52.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #13,224 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare United Airlines, Inc. against Tyco Electronics Brasil Ltda, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.5/100 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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