Where does Fraen Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fraen Corporation ranks #11,251 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 Fraen Corporation hold?

Fraen Corporation holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Fraen Corporation's Innovation Score?

Fraen Corporation has an Innovation Score of 46.3 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fraen Corporation focus on?

Fraen Corporation's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 27 patents, ranking #501 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fraen Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fraen Corporation's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Fraen Corporation's patents?

Fraen Corporation's patents average 21.1 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 Fraen Corporation 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

Fraen Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 14 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fraen ranks #11,251 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 14 technology areas.

#11,251
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.3/100): 21.1
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11251 · US Corporation #11,251 · 27 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,251/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Farapulse
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Farapulse, 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.

How Fraen’s 46.3 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 11.5 pts (25%) Velocity 8.9 pts (19%) Breadth 13.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Avidity Biosciences · near

46
Constellium Issoire · near

46
Fraen · this assignee

46
Speculative Product… · near

46
Tanita · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fraen's Innovation Score is 46.3/100 (top 21% 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 Fraen?

Each dot is one of Fraen’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). Fraen’s own 21.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fraen's grants concentrate

Fraen Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Fraen sits between FTS Computertechnik GMBH and Georg UTZ Holding AG.

Fraen's three-year grant acceleration

Fraen Corporation shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

FTS Computertechn…

27
Farapulse

27
Formway Furniture

27
Fox Hardwood Lumb…

27
Frieslandcampina…

27
Futaijing Precisi…

27
GD Energy Products

27
Georg UTZ Holding

27
Fraen ◀

27

What this shows Fraen holds 27 patents at rank #11,250, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fraen

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,250 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fraen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Fraen ranks #501 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Speculative Product Design, LLC 46 Tanita Corporation 46 Constellium Issoire 46 Avidity Biosciences, Inc. 46

Fraen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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.

View data table

Fraen Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	7.4%
2016	2	7.4%
2017	4	14.8%
2018	4	14.8%
2019	2	7.4%
2020	3	11.1%
2021	1	3.7%
2022	1	3.7%
2023	1	3.7%
2024	6	22.2%
2025partial year	1	3.7%

Which technologies does Fraen Corporation patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 27

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 12

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 6

F21K - Non-electric Light Sources Using LUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using ELECTROCHEMILUMINESCENCE; Light Sources Using Charges OF Combustible MATERIAL; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices AS Light-generating ELEMENTS; Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H01S - Devices Using THE Process OF Light Amplification BY Stimulated Emission OF Radiation [LASER] TO Amplify OR Generate LIGHT; Devices Using Stimulated Emission OF Electromagnetic Radiation IN Wave Ranges Other Than Optical 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 1

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

F21S - Non-portable Lighting DEVICES; Systems THEREOF; Vehicle Lighting Devices Specially Adapted FOR Vehicle Exteriors 1

F24S - Solar Heat COLLECTORS; Solar Heat Systems 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

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 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Fraen Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fraen Corporation's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #11,251 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fraen Corporation against FTS Computertechnik GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.3/100 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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