Where does Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH ranks #7,539 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 Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH hold?

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH holds 43 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 38 technology areas.

What is Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's Innovation Score?

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH has an Innovation Score of 65.3 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH focus on?

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 31 patents, ranking #449 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 38 CPC subclasses total.

Is Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's recent grant velocity is +1000% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's patents?

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's patents average 17.4 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 Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH 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

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 43 granted patents across 38 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Carl ranks #7,539 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 43 patents across 38 technology areas.

#7,539
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.3/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +1000%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7539 · Foreign Corporation #7,539 · 43 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 43 grants
UPPER-Q #7,539/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Carbonite
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 38 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +1000% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Carbonite, 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 Carl’s 65.3 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 (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (31%) Breadth 21.8 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Carl Zeiss Jena · this assignee

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Tata Consultancy… · near

65
The Trustees of… · near

65
Beijing Research… · near

65
Imagination · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Carl's Innovation Score is 65.3/100 (top 1% 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 Carl?

Each dot is one of Carl’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). Carl’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Carl's grants concentrate

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 38 CPC subclasses with 72.1% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Carl sits between Carefusion 207, Inc. and Coriant Oy.

Carl's three-year grant acceleration

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH shows 26 grants in 2022–2024 against only 8 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Carefusion 207

43
Center FOR Integr…

43
Chongqing BOE Dis…

43
Carbonite

43
China University…

43
Chongqing Univers…

43
Comadur

43
Coriant Oy

43
Carl Zeiss Jena ◀

43

What this shows Carl holds 43 patents at rank #7,541, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Carl

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,541 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Carl, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Carl ranks #449 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 65 Tata Consultancy Services Limited 65 Beijing Research Institute OF Chemical Industry, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation 65 Imagination Technologies Limited 65

Carl's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	4.7%
2019	1	2.3%
2020	3	7.0%
2021	4	9.3%
2022	9	20.9%
2023	4	9.3%
2024	13	30.2%
2025partial year	7	16.3%

Which technologies does Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 31

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 9

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 9

G03H - Holographic Processes OR Apparatus 9

G03B - Apparatus OR Arrangements FOR Taking Photographs OR FOR Projecting OR Viewing THEM; Apparatus OR Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical WAVES; Accessories Therefor 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 4

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 3

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

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 2

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 2

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 2

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 38 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

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 72.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #7,539 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH against Carefusion 207, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.