Where does Zodiac Aero Electric rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zodiac Aero Electric ranks #8,726 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 Zodiac Aero Electric hold?

Zodiac Aero Electric holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2022, spanning 34 technology areas.

What is Zodiac Aero Electric's Innovation Score?

Zodiac Aero Electric has an Innovation Score of 39.6 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zodiac Aero Electric's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zodiac Aero Electric's recent grant velocity is -46% 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 Zodiac Aero Electric's patents?

Zodiac Aero Electric's patents average 10.2 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 Zodiac Aero Electric 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

Zodiac Aero Electric

Q: What technology areas does Zodiac Aero Electric focus on?

Zodiac Aero Electric'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 18 patents, ranking #103 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 34 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 34 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2022. 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, Zodiac ranks #8,726 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 34 technology areas.

#8,726
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.6/100): 10.2
avg claims per patent: -46%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8726 · Foreign Corporation #8,726 · 37 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,726/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH iTool Equipment…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 34 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -46% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: iTool Equipment Holding LLC (±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 Zodiac’s 39.6 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 12.6 pts (32%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 20.6 pts (52%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Acorn Semi · near

40
Bmts Technology & KG · near

40
Cameron Solutions · near

40
Game Play Network · near

40
Zodiac Aero Electric · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zodiac's Innovation Score is 39.6/100 (top 38% 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 Zodiac?

Each dot is one of Zodiac’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). Zodiac’s own 10.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Zodiac's grants concentrate

Zodiac Aero Electric is a focused PatentsView assignee: 34 CPC subclasses with 48.6% 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 2019 (14 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Zodiac sits between Xylem Europe GmbH and 5.11, Inc..

Zodiac's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zodiac Aero Electric moved from 26 to 1 grants (0.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Xylem Europe

37
Yamashin-filter

37
Yuyao Yuchang Ele…

37
Zagg Intellectual…

37
itool Equipment H…

37
Zodiac Aero Elect… ◀

37
22 Evolution

36
3-D Matrix

36
5 11

36

What this shows Zodiac holds 37 patents at rank #8,725, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Zodiac

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,725 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Zodiac, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B64D (Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO Aircraft), Zodiac ranks #103 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Game Play Network, Inc. 40 Acorn Semi, LLC 40 Cameron Solutions, Inc. 40 Bmts Technology GmbH & Co. KG 40

Zodiac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 38% higher than 62% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Zodiac Aero Electric patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	5	13.5%
2018	5	13.5%
2019	14	37.8%
2020	9	24.3%
2021	3	8.1%
2022	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Zodiac Aero Electric patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 18

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 10

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H02B - Boards, Substations OR Switching Arrangements FOR THE Supply OR Distribution OF Electric Power 8

H02M - Apparatus FOR Conversion Between AC AND AC, Between AC AND DC, OR Between DC AND DC, AND FOR USE With Mains OR Similar Power Supply SYSTEMS; Conversion OF DC OR AC Input Power Into Surge Output POWER; Control OR Regulation Thereof 6

H01H - Electric SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; Emergency Protective Devices 5

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 4

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 3

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 3

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 3

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 3

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

Top 15 of 34 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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Zodiac Aero Electric'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), 48.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #8,726 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zodiac Aero Electric against Xylem Europe GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.6/100 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.

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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

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