Where does Oakley, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oakley, Inc. ranks #1,150 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 Oakley, Inc. hold?

Oakley, Inc. holds 369 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Oakley, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Oakley, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.1 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oakley, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oakley, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -23% 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 Oakley, Inc.'s patents?

Oakley, Inc.'s patents average 5.3 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 Oakley, Inc. 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

Oakley, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Oakley, Inc. focus on?

Oakley, Inc.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 58 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 369 granted patents across 26 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, Oakley ranks #1,150 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 369 patents across 26 technology areas.

#1,150
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100): 5.3
avg claims per patent: -23%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1150 · US Corporation #1,150 · 369 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 369 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,150/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AAC Optics Solutions…
CPC-FOCUS G02C · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -23% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AAC Optics Solutions Pte. 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hino Motors · near

48
Kinze Manufacturing · near

48
Carl Zeiss Spectrosc… · near

48
Oakley · this assignee

48
Spogen Biotech · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oakley's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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.

Where Oakley's grants concentrate

Oakley, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 15.7% 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 (50 grants) versus a trough of 19 in 2022. By volume, Oakley sits between Welch Allyn, Inc. and Trustees OF Dartmouth College.

Oakley's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Oakley, Inc. moved from 97 to 95 grants (0.98x 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 #1,235. See the growth leaderboard.

Welch Allyn

370
AAC Optics Soluti…

369
GE Video Compress…

369
Mars Incorporated

369
Oakley ◀

369
Gulfstream Aerosp…

368
KT&G

368
St Jude Medical A…

368
Trustees OF Dartm…

368

What this shows Oakley holds 369 patents at rank #1,150, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oakley

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,150 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Oakley, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Spogen Biotech, Inc. 48 Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy GmbH 48 Hino Motors, Ltd. 48 Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.3 here).

Dalian University of Technology 5.3 avg Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. 5.2 avg Dcstar Inc 5.2 avg Sugatsune Kogyo Co., Ltd. 5.2 avg

Oakley's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Oakley, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	44	11.9%
2016	40	10.8%
2017	40	10.8%
2018	31	8.4%
2019	41	11.1%
2020	31	8.4%
2021	25	6.8%
2022	19	5.1%
2023	26	7.0%
2024	50	13.6%
2025partial year	22	6.0%

Which technologies does Oakley, Inc. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 58

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 26

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 15

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 11

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

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 6

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 5

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 4

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 3

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 3

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 3

H04M - Telephonic Communication 3

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,150

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

48.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Oakley, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oakley, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 15.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #1,150 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oakley, Inc. against Welch Allyn, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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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