Where does Abzac Canada Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Abzac Canada Inc. ranks #17,397 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 Abzac Canada Inc. hold?

Abzac Canada Inc. holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Abzac Canada Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Abzac Canada Inc. has an Innovation Score of 34.1 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Abzac Canada Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Abzac Canada Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Abzac Canada Inc.'s patents?

Abzac Canada Inc.'s patents average 12.8 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 Abzac Canada 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 Foreign Corporation

Abzac Canada Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Abzac Canada Inc. focus on?

Abzac Canada Inc.'s top technology area is B31C (Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper) with 5 patents, ranking #2 of 19 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 8 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: B31C (Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Abzac ranks #17,397 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 8 technology areas.

#17,397
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.1/100): 12.8
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17397 · Foreign Corporation #17,397 · 16 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,397/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 89bio
CPC-NARROW B31C · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 89bio, 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 Abzac’s 34.1 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 (29%) Velocity 6.7 pts (20%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 7.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abzac Canada · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Abzac's Innovation Score is 34.1/100 (47th percentile 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 Abzac?

Each dot is one of Abzac’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). Abzac’s own 12.8 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Abzac's grants concentrate

Abzac Canada Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 31.3% of grants classified under B31C (Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Abzac sits between 89bio, Inc. and Acon Optics Communications Inc..

Abzac's three-year grant acceleration

Abzac Canada Inc. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

89bio

16
915 Labs

16
AAC Enterprises

16
Aadg

16
Access TO Advance…

16
Accuragen Holdings

16
ACO Sevrin Ahlman…

16
Acon Optics Commu…

16
Abzac Canada ◀

16

What this shows Abzac holds 16 patents at rank #17,397, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Abzac

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,397 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B31C (Making Wound Articles)

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

Abzac's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% 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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Abzac Canada Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	12.5%
2016	2	12.5%
2017	3	18.8%
2018	2	12.5%
2020	1	6.3%
2021	2	12.5%
2022	1	6.3%
2024	2	12.5%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Abzac Canada Inc. patent most?

B31C - Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 5

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 2

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Abzac Canada Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Abzac Canada Inc.'s lead technology class is B31C (Making Wound Articles, e.g. Wound Tubes, OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper), 31.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B31C
Ranked #17,397 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Abzac Canada Inc. against 89bio, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.1/100 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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