Where does Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. ranks #17,943 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 Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. hold?

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 42.4 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. focus on?

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 12 patents, ranking #55 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +67% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s patents average 15.6 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 Nikon-essilor 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

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 22 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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, Nikon-essilor ranks #17,943 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 22 technology areas.

#17,943
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.4/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: +67%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17943 · Foreign Corporation #17,943 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,943/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Netappli
CPC-FOCUS G02C · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +67% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Netappli 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 Nikon-essilor’s 42.4 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 9.8 pts (23%) Velocity 6.7 pts (16%) Breadth 16.6 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nikon-essilor · this assignee

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Nikon-essilor's Innovation Score is 42.4/100 (top 31% 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 Nikon-essilor?

Each dot is one of Nikon-essilor’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). Nikon-essilor’s own 15.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Nikon-essilor's grants concentrate

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 75% 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 2021 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Nikon-essilor sits between Netappli Co., Ltd. and Nittoku Co., Ltd..

Nikon-essilor's three-year grant acceleration

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Netappli

16
Neurophet

16
Nguyen CHI

16
Nidec Instruments

16
Nine Downhole

16
Ningbo Yinzhou Ji…

16
Ningbo Yusing Opt…

16
Nittoku

16
Nikon-essilor ◀

16

What this shows Nikon-essilor holds 16 patents at rank #17,929, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Nikon-essilor

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,929 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Nikon-essilor's primary technology class.

Nikon-essilor's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	12.5%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	2	12.5%
2021	4	25.0%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	2	12.5%
2024	2	12.5%

Which technologies does Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 12

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 8

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 4

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 3

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B24B - Machines, Devices, OR Processes FOR Grinding OR Polishing ; Dressing OR Conditioning OF Abrading SURFACES; Feeding OF Grinding, Polishing, OR Lapping Agents 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

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

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 2

B24D - Tools FOR Grinding, Buffing OR Sharpening 1

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 1

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

Top 15 of 22 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

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

Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 75% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #17,943 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Nikon-essilor Co., Ltd. against Netappli Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.4/100 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

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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

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