Where does Menicon Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Menicon Co., Ltd. ranks #6,051 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 Menicon Co., Ltd. hold?

Menicon Co., Ltd. holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Menicon Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Menicon Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Menicon Co., Ltd. focus on?

Menicon Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 25 patents, ranking #29 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Menicon Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Menicon Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Menicon Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Menicon Co., Ltd.'s patents average 14.1 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 Menicon Co., Ltd. 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

Menicon Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 40 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, Menicon ranks #6,051 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 40 technology areas.

#6,051
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 14.1
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6051 · Foreign Corporation #6,051 · 56 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,051/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Land O'Lakes
CPC-WIDE G02C · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Land O'Lakes, 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 Menicon’s 48.5 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 14.0 pts (29%) Velocity 3.7 pts (8%) Breadth 22.4 pts (46%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Menicon · this assignee

49
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

49
Paul Wurth · near

49
Salk Institute for… · near

49
Sekisui Plastics · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Menicon's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Menicon?

Each dot is one of Menicon’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). Menicon’s own 14.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Menicon's grants concentrate

Menicon Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 44.6% 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 2015 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Menicon sits between Land O'Lakes, Inc. and Mapbox, Inc..

Menicon's three-year grant acceleration

Menicon Co., Ltd. shows 10 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Land O'lakes

56
Leupold & Stevens

56
Longitude Semicon…

56
Martin Profession…

56
Mexichem Fluor DE…

56
Mplus

56
Musarubra US

56
Mapbox

56
Menicon ◀

56

What this shows Menicon holds 56 patents at rank #6,049, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Menicon

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,049 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Menicon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02C (Spectacles), Menicon ranks #29 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Paul Wurth S.A. 49 Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd. 49 Salk Institute for Biological Studies 49 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.1 here).

Oy Halton Group Ltd. 14.1 avg Veeco Instruments Inc. 14.1 avg B&R Industrial Automation GmbH 14.1 avg Biotronik AG 14.1 avg

Menicon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Menicon Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	9	16.1%
2016	4	7.1%
2017	8	14.3%
2018	6	10.7%
2019	8	14.3%
2020	8	14.3%
2021	2	3.6%
2022	3	5.4%
2023	3	5.4%
2024	4	7.1%
2025partial year	1	1.8%

Which technologies does Menicon Co., Ltd. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 25

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 16

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 14

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 13

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 9

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 7

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 6

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 6

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 6

C07K - Peptides 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

Top 15 of 40 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

Menicon Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Menicon Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 44.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #6,051 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Menicon Co., Ltd. against Land O'Lakes, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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.

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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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