Where does Zodiac Aerotechnics rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zodiac Aerotechnics ranks #5,131 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 Aerotechnics hold?

Zodiac Aerotechnics holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Zodiac Aerotechnics's Innovation Score?

Zodiac Aerotechnics has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Zodiac Aerotechnics's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zodiac Aerotechnics's recent grant velocity is -55% 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 Aerotechnics's patents?

Zodiac Aerotechnics's patents average 13.1 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 Aerotechnics 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 Aerotechnics

Q: What technology areas does Zodiac Aerotechnics focus on?

Zodiac Aerotechnics'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 53 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 35 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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 #5,131 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 35 technology areas.

#5,131
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 13.1
avg claims per patent: -55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5131 · Foreign Corporation #5,131 · 68 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,131/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH emz-Hanauer & KGaA
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA (±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
Arteris · near

44
Automatic Bar Controls · near

44
CytomX Therapeutics · near

44
IFM · near

44
Zodiac Aerotechnics · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zodiac's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Zodiac's grants concentrate

Zodiac Aerotechnics is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 77.9% 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 2015 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Zodiac sits between Vale S.A. and AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd..

Zodiac's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Zodiac Aerotechnics moved from 24 to 3 grants (0.13x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Vale

68
Vactronix Scienti…

68
WD Media

68
Woven Planet Nort…

68
emz-hanauer & Kgaa

68
i4f Licensing

68
zspace

68
Zodiac Aerotechni… ◀

68
AAC Optics (Suzho…

67

What this shows Zodiac holds 68 patents at rank #5,129, 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 #5,129 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. 44 Automatic Bar Controls, Inc. 44 Arteris, Inc. 44 IFM Electronic GmbH 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.1 here).

Withings 13.1 avg Shanghai Institute OF Materia Medica, Chinese Academy OF Sciences 13.1 avg Delavan Inc. 13.1 avg Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy 13.1 avg

Zodiac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Zodiac Aerotechnics patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	22.1%
2016	8	11.8%
2017	7	10.3%
2018	11	16.2%
2019	6	8.8%
2020	15	22.1%
2021	3	4.4%
2022	2	2.9%
2023	1	1.5%

Which technologies does Zodiac Aerotechnics patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 53

A62B - Devices, Apparatus OR Methods FOR Life-saving 34

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 15

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 7

A62C - Fire-fighting 6

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 6

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

B01D - Separation 3

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 3

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,131

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

44.3 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

Zodiac Aerotechnics'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), 77.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #5,131 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zodiac Aerotechnics against Vale S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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