Where does Vision Service Plan rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Vision Service Plan ranks #22,009 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Vision Service Plan hold?

Vision Service Plan holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2020, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Vision Service Plan's Innovation Score?

Vision Service Plan has an Innovation Score of 34.9 out of 100 (top 51% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Vision Service Plan's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Vision Service Plan's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Vision Service Plan's patents?

Vision Service Plan's patents average 18.7 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 Vision Service Plan 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

Vision Service Plan

Q: What technology areas does Vision Service Plan focus on?

Vision Service Plan's top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES) with 11 patents. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2020. 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, Vision ranks #22,009 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 17 technology areas.

#22,009
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 51%
by Innovation Score (34.9/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R22009 · US Corporation #22,009 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #22,009/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Vigilytics
CPC-FOCUS G02C · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Vigilytics 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
Vision Service Plan · this assignee

35
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Vision's Innovation Score is 34.9/100 (top 51% 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 Vision's grants concentrate

Vision Service Plan is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 84.6% 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 2020 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Vision sits between Vigilytics Llc and W2BI, Inc..

Vigilytics

13
Vikan A/S

13
Vinglacé

13
Viridos

13
Vista Precision S…

13
Visualimits

13
Vyv

13
W2BI

13
Vision Service Pl… ◀

13

What this shows Vision holds 13 patents at rank #22,009, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Vision

By rank, the assignees closest to #22,009 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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

Vision's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 51% higher than 49% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2020

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Vision Service Plan patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	15.4%
2018	1	7.7%
2019	4	30.8%
2020	6	46.2%

Which technologies does Vision Service Plan patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; SUNGLASSES OR GOGGLES INSOFAR AS THEY HAVE THE SAME FEATURES AS SPECTACLES; CONTACT LENSES 11

G06V - IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING 11

G06F - ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING 9

A63B - APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT 9

G07C - TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 9

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 8

G16H - HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA 8

G08B - SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS 8

H04L - TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION 7

G09B - EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS 7

H04M - TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION 2

G01C - MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY 2

G01S - RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES 2

B60Y - INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY 1

Top 15 of 17 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#22,009

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

34.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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

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