Where does Essilor International rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Essilor International ranks #755 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 Essilor International hold?

Essilor International holds 606 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is Essilor International's Innovation Score?

Essilor International has an Innovation Score of 62.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Essilor International's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Essilor International's recent grant velocity is +158% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Essilor International's patents?

Essilor International's patents average 15.8 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 Essilor International 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

Essilor International

Q: What technology areas does Essilor International focus on?

Essilor International's top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 397 patents, ranking #1 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 606 granted patents across 94 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, Essilor ranks #755 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 606 patents across 94 technology areas.

#755
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.6/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +158%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R755 · Foreign Corporation #755 · 606 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 606 grants
TOP-DECILE #755/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sysmex
CPC-WIDE G02C · 94 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +158% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sysmex Corporation (±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 Essilor’s 62.6 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 22.1 pts (35%) Velocity 6.0 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abbyy Development · near

63
Saint-gobain… · near

63
STMicroelectronics… · near

63
Essilor International · this assignee

63
Hella & KGaA · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Essilor's Innovation Score is 62.6/100 (top 2% 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 Essilor?

Each dot is one of Essilor’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). Essilor’s own 15.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Essilor's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Essilor International received 377 grants versus 146 in 2015–2019 (+158% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 102 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class G02C accounts for 65.5% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (#751) and Abb Vie Inc. (#759).

Essilor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Essilor International moved from 253 to 226 grants (0.89x 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 #1,502. See the growth leaderboard.

SK Innovation

610
Oki Data

609
University of Uta…

608
GE Aviation Syste…

607
Sysmex

606
Essilor Internati… ◀

606
Carl Zeiss Micros…

605
Parker-hannifin

605
Abb Vie

604

What this shows Essilor holds 606 patents at rank #755, 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 #755 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). In G02C (Spectacles), Essilor ranks #1 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA 63 Saint-gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. 63 STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS 63 Abbyy Development Inc. 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.8 here).

Sunpower Corporation 15.8 avg BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. 15.8 avg Dow Corning Corporation 15.8 avg Bestway Inflatables & Material Corp. 15.8 avg

Essilor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Essilor International patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	0.7%
2016	8	1.3%
2017	1	0.2%
2018	31	5.1%
2019	102	16.8%
2020	87	14.4%
2021	64	10.6%
2022	76	12.5%
2023	67	11.1%
2024	83	13.7%
2025partial year	83	13.7%

Which technologies does Essilor International patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 397

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 234

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 171

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 93

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 71

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 56

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 41

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 40

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 36

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 29

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 27

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 25

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 25

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 24

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 23

Top 15 of 94 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

Essilor International's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Essilor International's lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 65.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #755 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Essilor International against SK Innovation Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.6/100 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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