Where does Luxottica S.R.L. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Luxottica S.R.L. ranks #5,695 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 Luxottica S.R.L. hold?

Luxottica S.R.L. holds 60 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Luxottica S.R.L.'s Innovation Score?

Luxottica S.R.L. has an Innovation Score of 40.0 out of 100 (top 37% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Luxottica S.R.L. focus on?

Luxottica S.R.L.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 20 patents, ranking #36 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

Is Luxottica S.R.L.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Luxottica S.R.L.'s recent grant velocity is +48% 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 Luxottica S.R.L.'s patents?

Luxottica S.R.L.'s patents average 5.1 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 Luxottica S.R.L. 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

Luxottica S.R.L.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 60 granted patents across 15 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, Luxottica ranks #5,695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 60 patents across 15 technology areas.

#5,695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 37%
by Innovation Score (40.0/100): 5.1
avg claims per patent: +48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5695 · Foreign Corporation #5,695 · 60 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 60 grants
UPPER-Q #5,695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kepco Nuclear Fuel
CPC-FOCUS G02C · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 40.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kepco Nuclear Fuel 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 Luxottica’s 40.0 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 14.2 pts (36%) Velocity 9.0 pts (23%) Breadth 13.7 pts (34%) Claim depth 3.0 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Antares Pharma · near

40
Hosokawa Yoko · near

40
Janssen Sciences… · near

40
Jiangsu Midea… · near

40
Luxottica S R L · this assignee

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Luxottica's Innovation Score is 40.0/100 (top 37% 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 Luxottica?

Each dot is one of Luxottica’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). Luxottica’s own 5.1 claims/patent is at or below the 17.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Luxottica's grants concentrate

Luxottica S.R.L. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (17 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Luxottica sits between Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd. and Navico, Inc..

Luxottica's three-year grant acceleration

Luxottica S.R.L. shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 14 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.

Kepco Nuclear Fuel

60
Kimree Hi-tech

60
Knauf Insulation

60
Kongsberg Automot…

60
Lantech com

60
Lockheed Martin E…

60
Mueller Martini H…

60
Navico

60
Luxottica S R L ◀

60

What this shows Luxottica holds 60 patents at rank #5,692, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Luxottica

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,692 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Luxottica, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02C (Spectacles), Luxottica ranks #36 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

Janssen Sciences Ireland Unlimited Company 40 Jiangsu Midea Cleaning Appliances Co., Ltd. 40 Antares Pharma, Inc. 40 Hosokawa Yoko Co., Ltd. 40

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.1 here).

Artemide S.P.A. 5.1 avg Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. 5.1 avg iNtRON Biotechnology, Inc. 5.1 avg Whitmor, Inc. 5.0 avg

Luxottica's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 37% higher than 63% 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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Luxottica S.R.L. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.7%
2016	4	6.7%
2017	8	13.3%
2018	6	10.0%
2019	2	3.3%
2020	8	13.3%
2021	4	6.7%
2023	2	3.3%
2024	17	28.3%
2025partial year	8	13.3%

Which technologies does Luxottica S.R.L. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 20

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 5

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 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

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 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 1

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Luxottica S.R.L.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Luxottica S.R.L.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #5,695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Luxottica S.R.L. against Kepco Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.0/100 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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