Where does American Greetings Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), American Greetings Corporation ranks #2,162 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 American Greetings Corporation hold?

American Greetings Corporation holds 182 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is American Greetings Corporation's Innovation Score?

American Greetings Corporation has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is American Greetings Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

American Greetings Corporation's recent grant velocity is -59% 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 American Greetings Corporation's patents?

American Greetings Corporation's patents average 7.5 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 American Greetings Corporation 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

American Greetings Corporation

Q: What technology areas does American Greetings Corporation focus on?

American Greetings Corporation's top technology area is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus) with 51 patents, ranking #7 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 182 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, American ranks #2,162 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 182 patents across 26 technology areas.

#2,162
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 7.5
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2162 · US Corporation #2,162 · 182 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 182 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,162/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Beijing Qihoo…
CPC-FOCUS B42D · 26 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Beijing Qihoo Techology Company Limited (±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 American’s 43.8 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 18.0 pts (41%) Velocity 3.3 pts (8%) Breadth 18.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 4.5 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Greetings · this assignee

44
Bender & KG · near

44
Divx · near

44
RFMicron · near

44
Somfy SAS · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows American's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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 American?

Each dot is one of American’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). American’s own 7.5 claims/patent is at or below the 11.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where American's grants concentrate

American Greetings Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 28% of grants classified under B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (39 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, American sits between National Cancer Center and Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc..

American's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, American Greetings Corporation moved from 43 to 21 grants (0.49x 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 #2,722. See the growth leaderboard.

National Cancer C…

183
Panasonic Healthc…

183
Pony AI

183
Wuhan Tianma Micr…

183
Beijing Qihoo Tec…

182
Coopper Tire & Ru…

182
Koenig & Bauer

182
Konica Minolta Bu…

182
American Greetings ◀

182

What this shows American holds 182 patents at rank #2,162, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near American

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,162 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for American, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B42D (Books), American ranks #7 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Divx, LLC 44 Bender GmbH & Co. KG 44 Somfy SAS 44 RFMicron, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.5 here).

IP Holding Company LLC 7.5 avg Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd. 7.5 avg Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd. 7.4 avg Hyundai Steel Company 7.4 avg

American's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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American Greetings Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	29	15.9%
2016	28	15.4%
2017	39	21.4%
2018	19	10.4%
2019	12	6.6%
2020	15	8.2%
2021	16	8.8%
2022	13	7.1%
2023	4	2.2%
2024	4	2.2%
2025partial year	3	1.6%

Which technologies does American Greetings Corporation patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 51

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 27

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 13

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 13

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 6

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 4

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

H10D - Inorganic Electric Semiconductor Devices 3

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H10B - Electronic Memory Devices 3

G11C - Static Stores 3

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

Top 15 of 26 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

American Greetings Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

American Greetings Corporation's lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 28% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #2,162 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare American Greetings Corporation against National Cancer Center, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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