Where does Woodward, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Woodward, Inc. ranks #1,533 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 Woodward, Inc. hold?

Woodward, Inc. holds 272 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is Woodward, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Woodward, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 61.8 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 Woodward, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Woodward, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +16% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

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

Woodward, Inc.'s patents average 18.3 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 Woodward, 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

Woodward, Inc.

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

Woodward, Inc.'s top technology area is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants) with 66 patents, ranking #46 of 744 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 272 granted patents across 94 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: F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Woodward ranks #1,533 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 272 patents across 94 technology areas.

#1,533
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.8/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: +16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1533 · US Corporation #1,533 · 272 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 272 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,533/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acclarent
CPC-WIDE F05D · 94 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acclarent, Inc. (±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 Woodward’s 61.8 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 19.4 pts (31%) Velocity 6.4 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.0 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ventana Medical… · near

62
Walgreen · near

62
Caci —Federal · near

62
Marvell International · near

62
Woodward · this assignee

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Woodward's Innovation Score is 61.8/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Woodward?

Each dot is one of Woodward’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). Woodward’s own 18.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Woodward's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Woodward, Inc. received 139 grants versus 120 in 2015–2019 (+16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 11. Lead class F05D accounts for 24.3% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH (#1,529) and Resonac Corporation (#1,537).

Woodward's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Woodward, Inc. moved from 86 to 83 grants (0.96x 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 #1,279. See the growth leaderboard.

Valeo Schalter UN…

273
William Marsh Ric…

273
Acclarent

272
China University…

272
Woodward ◀

272
Central Glass

271
Fairchild Semicon…

271
Ionis Pharmaceuti…

271
Resonac

271

What this shows Woodward holds 272 patents at rank #1,533, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Woodward

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,533 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Woodward, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-disp…), Woodward ranks #46 of 744 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Marvell International Ltd. 62 Caci, Inc.—Federal 62 Walgreen Co. 62 Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.3 here).

Conduent Business Services, LLC 18.3 avg ArcelorMittal 18.3 avg United Services Automobile Association (USAA) 18.3 avg Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd. 18.3 avg

Woodward's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 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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Woodward, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	4.0%
2016	23	8.5%
2017	29	10.7%
2018	27	9.9%
2019	30	11.0%
2020	26	9.6%
2021	30	11.0%
2022	29	10.7%
2023	27	9.9%
2024	27	9.9%
2025partial year	13	4.8%

Which technologies does Woodward, Inc. patent most?

F05D - Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants 66

F02C - Gas-turbine PLANTS; AIR Intakes FOR Jet-propulsion PLANTS; Controlling Fuel Supply IN Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants 57

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 56

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 55

F02K - Jet-propulsion Plants 35

F23R - Generating Combustion Products OF High Pressure OR High Velocity, e.g. Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers 32

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 31

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 25

F02P - Ignition, Other Than Compression Ignition, FOR Internal-combustion ENGINES; Testing OF Ignition Timing IN Compression-ignition Engines 24

F16H - Gearing 23

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 22

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 22

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 19

F23D - Burners 15

Top 15 of 94 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

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

Woodward, Inc.'s lead technology class is F05D (Indexing Scheme FOR Aspects Relating TO Non-positive-displacement Machines OR Engines, Gas-turbines OR Jet-propulsion Plants), 24.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F05D
Ranked #1,533 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Woodward, Inc. against Valeo Schalter UND Sensoren GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.8/100 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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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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