Where does Zodiac Seats US LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Zodiac Seats US LLC ranks #7,650 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 Seats US LLC hold?

Zodiac Seats US LLC holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Zodiac Seats US LLC's Innovation Score?

Zodiac Seats US LLC has an Innovation Score of 39.5 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 Seats US LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Zodiac Seats US LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Seats US LLC's patents?

Zodiac Seats US LLC's patents average 17.7 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 Seats US LLC 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 Seats US LLC

Q: What technology areas does Zodiac Seats US LLC focus on?

Zodiac Seats US LLC'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 37 patents, ranking #65 of 799 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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 #7,650 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 20 technology areas.

#7,650
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7650 · US Corporation #7,650 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,650/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Össur hf
CPC-FOCUS B64D · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Össur hf (±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 39.5 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 13.1 pts (33%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.8 pts (40%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
AgBiome · near

40
Azionaria Costruzion… · near

40
Liebel-flarsheim · near

40
Mikuni Electron · near

40
Zodiac Seats US · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Zodiac's Innovation Score is 39.5/100 (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 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.3 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 Seats US LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 86% 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 2018 (15 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2019. By volume, Zodiac sits between Wake Forest University and AGC Automotive Americas R&D, Inc..

Wake Forest Unive…

43
Wavelight

43
West Texas Techno…

43
Yutou Technology…

43
Össur hf

43
Zodiac Seats US ◀

43
A&E Incoporated

42
A M Surgical

42
AGC Automotive Am…

42

What this shows Zodiac holds 43 patents at rank #7,650, 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 #7,650 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 #65 of 799 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

AgBiome, Inc. 40 Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.P.A. 40 Mikuni Electron Corporation 40 Liebel-flarsheim Company LLC 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 · 2015–2019

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 Seats US LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	16.3%
2016	6	14.0%
2017	13	30.2%
2018	15	34.9%
2019	2	4.7%

Which technologies does Zodiac Seats US LLC patent most?

B64D - Equipment FOR Fitting IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; Flight SUITS; PARACHUTES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Power Plants OR Propulsion Transmissions IN Aircraft 37

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 32

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 13

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 6

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 5

B61D - Body Details OR Kinds OF Railway Vehicles 5

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 3

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

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 1

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

B64C - AEROPLANES; Helicopters 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

H02G - Installation OF Electric Cables OR Lines, OR OF Combined Optical AND Electric Cables OR Lines 1

Top 15 of 20 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 Seats US LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Zodiac Seats US LLC'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), 86% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B64D
Ranked #7,650 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Zodiac Seats US LLC against Wake Forest University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.5/100 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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