Where does L'ORÉAL rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), L'ORÉAL ranks #5,857 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 L'ORÉAL hold?

L'ORÉAL holds 58 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is L'ORÉAL's Innovation Score?

L'ORÉAL has an Innovation Score of 47.2 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does L'ORÉAL focus on?

L'ORÉAL's top technology area is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes) with 48 patents, ranking #456 of 7,163 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

Is L'ORÉAL's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

L'ORÉAL's recent grant velocity is -7% 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 L'ORÉAL's patents?

L'ORÉAL's patents average 16.0 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 L'ORÉAL 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

L'ORÉAL

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 58 granted patents across 30 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: A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, L'oréal ranks #5,857 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 58 patents across 30 technology areas.

#5,857
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.2/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -7%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5857 · Foreign Corporation #5,857 · 58 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 58 grants
UPPER-Q #5,857/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jiangsu Midea…
CPC-FOCUS A61K · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -7% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jiangsu Midea Cleaning Appliances 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 L'oréal’s 47.2 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 14.1 pts (30%) Velocity 4.1 pts (9%) Breadth 19.4 pts (41%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bentley Motors · near

47
Dejero Labs · near

47
Innovium · near

47
Calsonic Kansei · near

47
L'ORÉAL · this assignee

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows L'oréal's Innovation Score is 47.2/100 (top 19% 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 L'oréal?

Each dot is one of L'oréal’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). L'oréal’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where L'oréal's grants concentrate

L'ORÉAL is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 82.8% of grants classified under A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (12 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, L'oréal sits between Jiangsu Midea Cleaning Appliances Co., Ltd. and Lensar, Inc..

L'oréal's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, L'ORÉAL moved from 21 to 13 grants (0.62x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Jiangsu Midea Cle…

58
KEY Safety Systems

58
Korea University…

58
Keithley Instrume…

58
Lisi Aerospace

58
Lutronic

58
Leapfrog Product…

58
Lensar

58
L'orÉAL ◀

58

What this shows L'ORÉAL holds 58 patents at rank #5,854, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near L'ORÉAL

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,854 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61K (Preparations FOR Medical)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for L'ORÉAL, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61K (Preparations FOR Medical), L'ORÉAL ranks #456 of 7,163 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Calsonic Kansei Corporation 47 Dejero Labs Inc. 47 Bentley Motors Limited 47 Innovium, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Lincoln Industrial Corporation 16.0 avg Promega Corporation 16.0 avg Dassault Systemes 16.0 avg Oshkosh Corporation 16.0 avg

L'oréal's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

L'ORÉAL patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	7	12.1%
2016	2	3.4%
2017	5	8.6%
2018	8	13.8%
2019	7	12.1%
2020	12	20.7%
2021	2	3.4%
2022	11	19.0%
2024	2	3.4%
2025partial year	2	3.4%

Which technologies does L'ORÉAL patent most?

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 48

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 47

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 11

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 5

A46B - Brushes 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

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 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

L'ORÉAL's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

L'ORÉAL's lead technology class is A61K (Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes), 82.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61K
Ranked #5,857 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare L'ORÉAL against Jiangsu Midea Cleaning Appliances Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.2/100 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

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.