Where does Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG ranks #5,055 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 Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG holds 68 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 30 technology areas.

What is Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is +122% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's patents average 18.1 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 Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG 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

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is 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) with 44 patents, ranking #57 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 30 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 68 granted patents across 30 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Alpla ranks #5,055 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 68 patents across 30 technology areas.

#5,055
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +122%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5055 · Foreign Corporation #5,055 · 68 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 68 grants
UPPER-Q #5,055/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Agora Lab
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 30 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +122% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Agora Lab, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alpla Werke Alwin… · this assignee

50
Flamel Ireland · near

50
National Taiwan… · near

50
Voestalpine Stahl · near

50
Walter · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Alpla's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 Alpla's grants concentrate

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 30 CPC subclasses with 64.7% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Alpla sits between University OF Oregon and Agora Lab, Inc..

Alpla's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG moved from 25 to 21 grants (0.84x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

University OF Ore…

69
UniversitÄT ZÜRICH

69
Veveo

69
Vuzix

69
Aten International

68
Autoliv Nissin Br…

68
Automobili Lambor…

68
Agora Lab

68
Alpla Werke Alwin… ◀

68

What this shows Alpla holds 68 patents at rank #5,053, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Alpla

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,053 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Alpla, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Alpla ranks #57 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Voestalpine Stahl GmbH 50 Flamel Ireland Limited 50 National Taiwan Normal University 50 Walter AG 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.1 here).

Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG 18.1 avg Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG 18.1 avg Zscaler, Inc. 18.1 avg University OF Maryland, College Park 18.1 avg

Alpla's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 13% higher than 87% 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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Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.5%
2016	4	5.9%
2017	1	1.5%
2018	6	8.8%
2019	6	8.8%
2020	8	11.8%
2021	11	16.2%
2022	2	2.9%
2023	7	10.3%
2024	12	17.6%
2025partial year	10	14.7%

Which technologies does Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

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 44

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 39

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 30

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 28

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 20

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 2

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 2

B02C - Crushing, Pulverising, OR Disintegrating IN GENERAL; Milling Grain 2

Top 15 of 30 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#5,055

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

50.5 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

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is 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 F), 64.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #5,055 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KG against University OF Oregon, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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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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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