Where does Weston Aerospace Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Weston Aerospace Limited ranks #22,030 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Weston Aerospace Limited hold?

Weston Aerospace Limited holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Weston Aerospace Limited's Innovation Score?

Weston Aerospace Limited has an Innovation Score of 35.6 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Weston Aerospace Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Weston Aerospace Limited's recent grant velocity is -37% 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 Weston Aerospace Limited's patents?

Weston Aerospace Limited's patents average 16.3 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 Weston Aerospace 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

Weston Aerospace Limited

Q: What technology areas does Weston Aerospace Limited focus on?

Weston Aerospace Limited's top technology area is G01K (MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR) with 4 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: G01K (MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Weston ranks #22,030 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 19 technology areas.

#22,030
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.6/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -37%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22030 · Foreign Corporation #22,030 · 13 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #22,030/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH WATERGEN
CPC-FOCUS G01K · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -37% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Watergen Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Weston Aerospace · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Weston's Innovation Score is 35.6/100 (top 49% 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.

Where Weston's grants concentrate

Weston Aerospace Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under G01K (MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Weston sits between Watergen Ltd. and WINS Co., Ltd..

Watergen

13
Webasto Japan

13
WELL Stone

13
Wellesley Pharmac…

13
Whitehat Security

13
Wilco

13
Winloc

13
WINS

13
Weston Aerospace ◀

13

What this shows Weston holds 13 patents at rank #22,020, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Weston

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,020 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01K (Measuring Temperature)

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

Weston's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Weston Aerospace Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	23.1%
2016	1	7.7%
2017	3	23.1%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	2	15.4%
2021	2	15.4%
2024	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Weston Aerospace Limited patent most?

G01K - MEASURING TEMPERATURE; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

G01M - TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES OR STRUCTURES; TESTING OF STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 4

F01D - NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAM TURBINES 3

G01D - MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVERED IN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 3

F05D - INDEXING SCHEME FOR ASPECTS RELATING TO NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, GAS-TURBINES OR JET-PROPULSION PLANTS 3

G01B - MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MEASURING ANGLES; MEASURING AREAS; MEASURING IRREGULARITIES OF SURFACES OR CONTOURS 3

G01L - MEASURING FORCE, STRESS, TORQUE, WORK, MECHANICAL POWER, MECHANICAL EFFICIENCY, OR FLUID PRESSURE 2

G01R - MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES 2

G01P - MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 1

H01C - RESISTORS 1

G01F - MEASURING VOLUME, VOLUME FLOW, MASS FLOW OR LIQUID LEVEL; METERING BY VOLUME 1

H10N - ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,030

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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