Where does Avery Dennison Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Avery Dennison Corporation ranks #1,261 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 Avery Dennison Corporation hold?

Avery Dennison Corporation holds 336 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 104 technology areas.

What is Avery Dennison Corporation's Innovation Score?

Avery Dennison Corporation has an Innovation Score of 63.6 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Avery Dennison Corporation focus on?

Avery Dennison Corporation's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 144 patents, ranking #49 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 104 CPC subclasses total.

Is Avery Dennison Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Avery Dennison Corporation's recent grant velocity is -44% 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 Avery Dennison Corporation's patents?

Avery Dennison Corporation's patents average 22.5 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 Avery Dennison 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

Avery Dennison Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 336 granted patents across 104 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Avery ranks #1,261 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 336 patents across 104 technology areas.

#1,261
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.6/100): 22.5
avg claims per patent: -44%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1261 · US Corporation #1,261 · 336 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 336 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,261/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH King Slide Works
CPC-WIDE Y10T · 104 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -44% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: King Slide Works Co., Ltd. (±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 Avery’s 63.6 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 20.1 pts (32%) Velocity 5.0 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Assa Abloy AB · near

64
Avery Dennison · this assignee

64
Boehringer Ingelheim… · near

64
Maxell · near

64
Yeda Research AND… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Avery's Innovation Score is 63.6/100 (top 2% 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 Avery?

Each dot is one of Avery’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). Avery’s own 22.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Avery's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Avery Dennison Corporation received 116 grants versus 208 in 2015–2019 (-44% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 51 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 18. Lead class Y10T accounts for 42.9% of the portfolio across 104 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (#1,257) and K2M, Inc. (#1,265).

Avery's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Avery Dennison Corporation moved from 84 to 63 grants (0.75x 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 #1,987. See the growth leaderboard.

Ajinomoto

337
Onetrust

337
Silicon Works

337
SNU R&DB Foundati…

337
King Slide Works

336
Avery Dennison ◀

336
Cummins Emission…

335
Sophos

335
K2M

334

What this shows Avery holds 336 patents at rank #1,261, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Avery

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,261 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Avery, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Avery ranks #49 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Yeda Research AND Development Co. Ltd. 64 Assa Abloy AB 64 Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH 64 Maxell, Ltd. 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.5 here).

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC 22.5 avg ResMed Pty Ltd 22.5 avg Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc. 22.5 avg Mbit Wireless, Inc. 22.5 avg

Avery's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Avery Dennison Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	51	15.2%
2016	43	12.8%
2017	45	13.4%
2018	38	11.3%
2019	31	9.2%
2020	19	5.7%
2021	34	10.1%
2022	27	8.0%
2023	18	5.4%
2024	18	5.4%
2025partial year	12	3.6%

Which technologies does Avery Dennison Corporation patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 144

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 142

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 91

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 80

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 59

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 46

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 45

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 45

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 29

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 26

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 24

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 23

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 23

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 18

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 18

Top 15 of 104 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

Avery Dennison Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Avery Dennison Corporation's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 42.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #1,261 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Avery Dennison Corporation against Ajinomoto Co., Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.6/100 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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