Where does Designs for Vision, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Designs for Vision, Inc. ranks #6,324 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 Designs for Vision, Inc. hold?

Designs for Vision, Inc. holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Designs for Vision, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Designs for Vision, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Designs for Vision, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Designs for Vision, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +94% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Designs for Vision, Inc.'s patents?

Designs for Vision, Inc.'s patents average 18.9 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 Designs for Vision, 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

Designs for Vision, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Designs for Vision, Inc. focus on?

Designs for Vision, Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 31 patents, ranking #71 of 1,359 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 19 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: 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).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Designs ranks #6,324 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 19 technology areas.

#6,324
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 18.9
avg claims per patent: +94%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6324 · US Corporation #6,324 · 53 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,324/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cognis IP Management
CPC-FOCUS F21Y · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +94% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cognis IP Management GmbH (±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 Designs’s 43.8 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 13.8 pts (32%) Velocity 3.2 pts (7%) Breadth 15.4 pts (35%) Claim depth 11.4 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avegant · near

44
Designs for Vision · this assignee

44
RFMicron · near

44
Somfy SAS · near

44
Star Micronics · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Designs's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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 Designs?

Each dot is one of Designs’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). Designs’s own 18.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Designs's grants concentrate

Designs for Vision, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 58.5% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Designs sits between Cognis IP Management GmbH and European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Designs's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Designs for Vision, Inc. moved from 27 to 13 grants (0.48x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Cognis IP Managem…

53
Complete Genomics

53
Crane Payment Inn…

53
Dexin

53
Digi International

53
E R Squibb & Sons…

53
Ent Services Deve…

53
European Molecula…

53
Designs for Vision ◀

53

What this shows Designs holds 53 patents at rank #6,324, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Designs

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,324 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Designs, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In F21Y (Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k), Designs ranks #71 of 1,359 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Avegant Corp. 44 Star Micronics Co., Ltd. 44 RFMicron, Inc. 44 Somfy SAS 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.9 here).

Procept BioRobotics Corporation 18.9 avg AST & Science, LLC 18.9 avg CYTONOME/ST, LLC 18.9 avg Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 18.9 avg

Designs's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Designs for Vision, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.9%
2016	3	5.7%
2017	2	3.8%
2018	4	7.5%
2019	7	13.2%
2020	9	17.0%
2021	11	20.8%
2022	4	7.5%
2023	5	9.4%
2024	4	7.5%
2025partial year	3	5.7%

Which technologies does Designs for Vision, Inc. patent most?

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 31

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 31

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 30

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 26

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 23

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 16

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 12

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 11

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 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

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 6

A61C - DENTISTRY; Apparatus OR Methods FOR Oral OR Dental Hygiene 6

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 4

A61N - ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; Radiation THERAPY; Ultrasound Therapy 3

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 2

Top 15 of 19 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

Designs for Vision, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Designs for Vision, Inc.'s lead technology class is 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), 58.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F21Y
Ranked #6,324 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Designs for Vision, Inc. against Cognis IP Management GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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

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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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