Where does Transitions Optical, Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Transitions Optical, Ltd. ranks #3,989 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 Transitions Optical, Ltd. hold?

Transitions Optical, Ltd. holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 40 technology areas.

What is Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Transitions Optical, Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 53.3 out of 100 (top 9% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Transitions Optical, Ltd. focus on?

Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s top technology area is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus) with 54 patents. Grants appear in 40 CPC subclasses total.

Is Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +29% 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 Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s patents?

Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s patents average 14.9 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 Transitions Optical, 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

Transitions Optical, Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 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: G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Transitions ranks #3,989 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 40 technology areas.

#3,989
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 9%
by Innovation Score (53.3/100): 14.9
avg claims per patent: +29%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3989 · Foreign Corporation #3,989 · 91 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,989/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Silgan White Cap
CPC-WIDE G02B · 40 areas
INNOV-PAR 53.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +29% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Silgan White Cap LLC (±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
ACM Research… · near

53
Berg Companies · near

53
REG Synthetic Fuels · near

53
Shanghai Tianma… · near

53
Transitions Optical · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Transitions's Innovation Score is 53.3/100 (top 9% 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 Transitions's grants concentrate

Transitions Optical, Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 40 CPC subclasses with 59.3% of grants classified under G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (13 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2017. By volume, Transitions sits between Silgan White Cap LLC and AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc..

Transitions's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Transitions Optical, Ltd. moved from 26 to 25 grants (0.96x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Silgan White Cap

91
Tango Networks

91
Tsmc Nanjing

91
Transdermal Biote…

91
Treace Medical Co…

91
University of Man…

91
Whirlpool

91
Transitions Optic… ◀

91
AGC Flat Glass No…

90

What this shows Transitions holds 91 patents at rank #3,990, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Transitions

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,990 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Shanghai Tianma Am-oled Co., Ltd. 53 REG Synthetic Fuels, LLC 53 Berg Companies, Inc. 53 ACM Research (SHANGHAI), Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.9 here).

Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg Physik Instrumente (PI) GMBH & Co. KG 14.9 avg Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd. 14.9 avg General Electric Renovables Espana, S.L. 14.9 avg

Transitions's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 9% higher than 91% 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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Transitions Optical, Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	14.3%
2016	6	6.6%
2017	3	3.3%
2018	5	5.5%
2019	7	7.7%
2020	10	11.0%
2021	9	9.9%
2022	7	7.7%
2023	8	8.8%
2024	10	11.0%
2025partial year	13	14.3%

Which technologies does Transitions Optical, Ltd. patent most?

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 54

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 43

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 43

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 31

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 25

G03C - Photosensitive Materials FOR Photographic Purposes ; Photographic Processes, e.g. Cine, X-ray, Colour, Stereo-photographic PROCESSES; Auxiliary Processes IN Photography 25

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 10

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 9

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

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 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 9

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 7

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

Top 15 of 40 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,989

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

53.3 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

Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Transitions Optical, Ltd.'s lead technology class is G02B (Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus), 59.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02B
Ranked #3,989 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Transitions Optical, Ltd. against Silgan White Cap LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 53.3/100 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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