Where does Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) ranks #1,966 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s Innovation Score?

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) has an Innovation Score of 53.2 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s patents?

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s patents average 16.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)

Q: How many patents does Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) hold?

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) holds 204 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 62 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) focus on?

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 109 patents. Grants appear in 62 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) 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 PatentsView assignee record - 204 granted patents across 62 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Essilor ranks #1,966 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 204 patents across 62 technology areas.

#1,966
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.2/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1966 · Foreign Corporation #1,966 · 204 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 204 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,966/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Crocs
CPC-WIDE G02C · 62 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Crocs, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Essilor Internationa… · this assignee

53
NBCUniversal Media · near

53
Nippon Steel… · near

53
Safran Landing… · near

53
W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Essilor's Innovation Score is 53.2/100 (top 9% 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.

How Essilor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) received 2 grants versus 202 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 70 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 2. Lead class G02C accounts for 53.4% of the portfolio across 62 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG (#1,962) and Netgear, Inc. (#1,970).

Heraeus Deutschla…

205
Panasonic Automot…

205
Crocs

204
Entropic Communic…

204
Heartware

204
Kateeva

204
Lummus Technology

204
Netgear

204
Essilor Internati… ◀

204

What this shows Essilor holds 204 patents at rank #1,966, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Essilor

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,966 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Essilor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

NBCUniversal Media, LLC 53 Safran Landing Systems UK Ltd. 53 Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation 53 W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.3 here).

HL Klemove Corp. 16.3 avg Vito NV 16.3 avg Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 16.3 avg University of Manitoba 16.3 avg

Essilor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	56	27.5%
2016	47	23.0%
2017	70	34.3%
2018	26	12.7%
2019	3	1.5%
2020	2	1.0%

Which technologies does Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 109

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 64

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 40

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 36

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 34

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 34

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 16

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 9

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 8

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 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 6

Top 15 of 62 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,966

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique)'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 53.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #1,966 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d'Optique) against Heraeus Deutschland GMBH & Co. KG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.2/100 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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