Where does Zodiac Aerosafety Systems rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zodiac Aerosafety Systems ranks #27,916 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 Aerosafety Systems hold?

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Zodiac Aerosafety Systems's Innovation Score?

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems has an Innovation Score of 33.7 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zodiac Aerosafety Systems's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems's recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Aerosafety Systems's patents?

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems's patents average 18.0 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 Zodiac Aerosafety Systems 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

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems

Q: What technology areas does Zodiac Aerosafety Systems focus on?

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems'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 8 patents, ranking #191 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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 #27,916 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 17 technology areas.

#27,916
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.7/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27916 · US Corporation #27,916 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,916/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ZHU HAI Fuyun…
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ZHU HAI Fuyun Lighting Industrial Co., 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.

How Zodiac’s 33.7 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 8.3 pts (25%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Zodiac Aerosafety… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zodiac's Innovation Score is 33.7/100 (45th percentile 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 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Zodiac's grants concentrate

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 80% 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 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Zodiac sits between ZHU HAI Fuyun Lighting Industrial Co., Ltd. and Zycada Networks, Inc..

ZHU HAI Fuyun Lig…

10
Zhuhai Juntian Te…

10
Zilltek Technolog…

10
Zinwave

10
Zoller & FRÖHlich

10
ZTE (TX)

10
ZYA

10
Zycada Networks

10
Zodiac Aerosafety… ◀

10

What this shows Zodiac holds 10 patents at rank #27,887, 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 #27,887 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.

Zodiac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

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

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Zodiac Aerosafety Systems patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	4	40.0%
2017	3	30.0%
2019	2	20.0%
2021	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Zodiac Aerosafety Systems patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 8

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 3

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 2

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 2

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 2

D03D - Woven FABRICS; Methods OF WEAVING; Looms 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

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 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

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

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 1

D02G - Crimping OR Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, OR YARNS; Yarns OR Threads 1

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 1

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zodiac Aerosafety Systems'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), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #27,916 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zodiac Aerosafety Systems against ZHU HAI Fuyun Lighting Industrial Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.7/100 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

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