Where does Glaukos Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Glaukos Corporation ranks #5,284 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 Glaukos Corporation hold?

Glaukos Corporation holds 65 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Glaukos Corporation's Innovation Score?

Glaukos Corporation has an Innovation Score of 42.9 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Glaukos Corporation's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Glaukos Corporation's patents?

Glaukos Corporation's patents average 19.4 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 Glaukos 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

Glaukos Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Glaukos Corporation focus on?

Glaukos Corporation's top technology area is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs) with 50 patents, ranking #118 of 3,082 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 65 granted patents across 13 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: A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Glaukos ranks #5,284 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 65 patents across 13 technology areas.

#5,284
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (42.9/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5284 · US Corporation #5,284 · 65 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 65 grants
UPPER-Q #5,284/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Foxlink Image…
CPC-FOCUS A61F · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Foxlink Image Technology Co., 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 Glaukos’s 42.9 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 14.5 pts (34%) Velocity 4.0 pts (9%) Breadth 12.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Glaukos · this assignee

43
Imprivata · near

43
National Christmas… · near

43
QM Power · near

43
Sionyx · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Glaukos's Innovation Score is 42.9/100 (top 29% 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 Glaukos?

Each dot is one of Glaukos’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). Glaukos’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Glaukos's grants concentrate

Glaukos Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 76.9% of grants classified under A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Glaukos sits between Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd. and Himax Display, Inc..

Glaukos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Glaukos Corporation moved from 25 to 15 grants (0.60x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Foxlink Image Tec…

65
Galvani Bioelectr…

65
Graco Children's…

65
Gachon University…

65
Hisense

65
Hydac Technology

65
Headwater Partner…

65
Himax Display

65
Glaukos ◀

65

What this shows Glaukos holds 65 patents at rank #5,285, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Glaukos

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,285 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Glaukos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood Vessels), Glaukos ranks #118 of 3,082 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Imprivata, Inc. 43 QM Power, Inc. 43 Sionyx, LLC 43 National Christmas Products LLC 43

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Cyberlink Corp. 19.4 avg TrueCar, Inc. 19.4 avg CaaStle, Inc 19.4 avg Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd. 19.4 avg

Glaukos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Glaukos Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	4.6%
2016	2	3.1%
2017	7	10.8%
2018	4	6.2%
2019	12	18.5%
2020	7	10.8%
2021	6	9.2%
2022	3	4.6%
2023	6	9.2%
2024	6	9.2%
2025partial year	9	13.8%

Which technologies does Glaukos Corporation patent most?

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 50

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 17

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 17

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 14

F04C - Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Machines FOR Liquids ; Rotary-piston, OR Oscillating-piston, Positive-displacement Pumps 6

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 6

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 5

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 2

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 13 of 13 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

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

Glaukos Corporation's lead technology class is A61F (Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive Device), 76.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61F
Ranked #5,284 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Glaukos Corporation against Foxlink Image Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.9/100 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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