Where does Chanel rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chanel ranks #25,984 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Chanel hold?

Chanel holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Chanel's Innovation Score?

Chanel has an Innovation Score of 21.8 out of 100 (top 91% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Chanel focus on?

Chanel's top technology area is A61Q (SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS) with 2 patents. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Chanel's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chanel's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Chanel's patents?

Chanel's patents average 7.6 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 Chanel 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

Chanel

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2024. 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: A61Q (SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chanel ranks #25,984 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 4 technology areas.

#25,984
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 91%
by Innovation Score (21.8/100): 7.6
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25984 · Foreign Corporation #25,984 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,984/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH CELLSPECT
CPC-NARROW A61Q · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cellspect 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chanel · this assignee

22
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Chanel's Innovation Score is 21.8/100 (top 91% 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 Chanel's grants concentrate

Chanel is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 20% of grants classified under A61Q (SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Chanel sits between Cellspect Co., Ltd. and Chiscan Holdings, Llc.

Chanel's three-year grant acceleration

Chanel shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Cellspect

10
Cellwize Wireless

10
Centerline Biomed…

10
Centre FOR Develo…

10
Changwon National…

10
Chian YIH Optotech

10
China Flash

10
Chiscan Holdings

10
Chanel ◀

10

What this shows Chanel holds 10 patents at rank #25,961, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chanel

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,961 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61Q (Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations)

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

Chanel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 Top 91% higher than 9% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2024

Grants by year

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

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Chanel patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	5	50.0%
2024	2	20.0%

Which technologies does Chanel patent most?

A61Q - SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETRY PREPARATIONS 2

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 2

C11B - PRODUCING, e.g. BY PRESSING RAW MATERIALS OR BY EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS, REFINING OR PRESERVING FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES, e.g. LANOLIN, FATTY OILS OR WAXES; ESSENTIAL OILS; PERFUMES 2

A44C - PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS 1

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#25,984

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

21.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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.