Where does Mentor Acquisition One, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mentor Acquisition One, LLC ranks #2,174 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 Mentor Acquisition One, LLC hold?

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC holds 181 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's Innovation Score?

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC has an Innovation Score of 58.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mentor Acquisition One, LLC focus on?

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 173 patents, ranking #91 of 4,891 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's recent grant velocity is +1825% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's patents?

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's patents average 17.5 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 Mentor Acquisition One, LLC 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

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 181 granted patents across 29 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Mentor ranks #2,174 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 181 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,174
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.5/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +1825%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2174 · US Corporation #2,174 · 181 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 181 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,174/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Devicor Medical…
CPC-FOCUS G02B · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1825% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Devicor Medical Products, 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 Mentor’s 58.5 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 18.0 pts (31%) Velocity 11.0 pts (19%) Breadth 19.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chugai Seiyaku · near

59
Mentor Acquisition One · this assignee

59
Novelis · near

59
Nippon Electric Glass · near

59
Somfy Activites · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mentor's Innovation Score is 58.5/100 (top 4% 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 Mentor?

Each dot is one of Mentor’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). Mentor’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mentor's grants concentrate

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 95.6% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (36 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2019. By volume, Mentor sits between Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc. and Bomag GmbH.

Mentor's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Mentor Acquisition One, LLC moved from 61 to 101 grants (1.66x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #338. See the growth leaderboard.

Toshiba Global Co…

182
Zhejiang Geely Ho…

182
Devicor Medical P…

181
Enphase Energy

181
Piaggio & C SPA

181
The Sherwin-willi…

181
Mentor Acquisitio… ◀

181
3shape A/S

180
Bomag

180

What this shows Mentor holds 181 patents at rank #2,174, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mentor

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,174 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mentor, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G02B (Optical Elements), Mentor ranks #91 of 4,891 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Novelis Inc. 59 Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha 59 Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. 59 Somfy Activites SA 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Avalanche Technology, Inc. 17.5 avg Dialog Semiconductor Inc. 17.5 avg VCE IP Holding Company LLC 17.5 avg ACM Research (SHANGHAI), Inc. 17.5 avg

Mentor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2019–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mentor Acquisition One, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	8	4.4%
2020	29	16.0%
2021	24	13.3%
2022	30	16.6%
2023	35	19.3%
2024	36	19.9%
2025partial year	19	10.5%

Which technologies does Mentor Acquisition One, LLC patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 173

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 131

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 55

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 40

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 34

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 33

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 28

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 14

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 14

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 13

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 12

A61H - Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g. Devices FOR Locating OR Stimulating Reflex Points IN THE BODY; Artificial RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; Bathing Devices FOR Special Therapeutic OR Hygienic Purposes OR Specific Parts OF THE Body 8

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

Top 15 of 29 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mentor Acquisition One, LLC's lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 95.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #2,174 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mentor Acquisition One, LLC against Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.5/100 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.

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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