Where does Costa Del Mar, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Costa Del Mar, Inc. ranks #3,448 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 Costa Del Mar, Inc. hold?

Costa Del Mar, Inc. holds 107 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Costa Del Mar, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 21.1 out of 100 (8th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Costa Del Mar, Inc. focus on?

Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 2 patents, ranking #208 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s patents?

Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s patents average 1.5 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 Costa Del Mar, Inc. 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

Costa Del Mar, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 107 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Costa ranks #3,448 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 107 patents across 1 technology areas.

#3,448
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 8th percentile
by Innovation Score (21.1/100): 1.5
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3448 · US Corporation #3,448 · 107 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 107 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,448/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aurora Labs
CPC-NARROW G02C · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 21.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aurora Labs 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 Costa’s 21.1 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 16.2 pts (77%) Velocity 0.5 pts (2%) Breadth 3.5 pts (17%) Claim depth 0.9 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Paper Software · near

21
Costa Del Mar · this assignee

21
Ovata B V · near

21
Spray Nozzle… · near

21
Phantom Cyber · near

21
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Costa's Innovation Score is 21.1/100 (8th 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 Costa?

Each dot is one of Costa’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). Costa’s own 1.5 claims/patent is at or below the 18.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Costa's grants concentrate

Costa Del Mar, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 1.9% of grants classified under G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (39 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Costa sits between Aurora Labs Ltd. and Galderma Research & Development.

Costa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Costa Del Mar, Inc. moved from 43 to 3 grants (0.07x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,208. See the growth leaderboard.

Aurora Labs

107
BCE

107
Bestop

107
Boston Scientific…

107
Cylance

107
Diebold Nixdorf I…

107
Elbit Systems

107
Galderma Research…

107
Costa Del Mar ◀

107

What this shows Costa holds 107 patents at rank #3,448, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Costa

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,448 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Costa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02C (Spectacles), Costa ranks #208 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (21 here).

Paper Software LLC 21 Ovata B.V. 21 Spray Nozzle Engineering PTY Ltd 21 Phantom Cyber Corporation 21

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.5 here).

Zhejiang Taotao Vehicles Co., Ltd 1.5 avg Arper S.P.A. 1.4 avg Landscape Forms, Inc. 1.5 avg SDI Technologies, Inc. 1.5 avg

Costa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

21 8th percentile higher than 8% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Costa Del Mar, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	25.2%
2016	22	20.6%
2017	1	0.9%
2018	7	6.5%
2019	39	36.4%
2020	3	2.8%
2021	1	0.9%
2023	1	0.9%
2024	2	1.9%
2025partial year	4	3.7%

Which technologies does Costa Del Mar, Inc. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 2

Top 1 of 1 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

Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Costa Del Mar, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 1.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #3,448 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Costa Del Mar, Inc. against Aurora Labs Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 21.1/100 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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