Where does Bemis Associates, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bemis Associates, Inc. ranks #4,999 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 Bemis Associates, Inc. hold?

Bemis Associates, Inc. holds 69 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 37 technology areas.

What is Bemis Associates, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Bemis Associates, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 50.4 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 Bemis Associates, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bemis Associates, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +13% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Bemis Associates, Inc.'s patents?

Bemis Associates, Inc.'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 Bemis Associates, 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 US Corporation

Bemis Associates, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Bemis Associates, Inc. focus on?

Bemis Associates, Inc.'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 50 patents, ranking #48 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 37 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 69 granted patents across 37 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, Bemis ranks #4,999 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 69 patents across 37 technology areas.

#4,999
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.4/100): 18.1
avg claims per patent: +13%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4999 · US Corporation #4,999 · 69 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 69 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,999/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ASM International
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 37 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +13% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ASM International N.V. (±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 Bemis’s 50.4 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 14.7 pts (29%) Velocity 3.3 pts (7%) Breadth 21.5 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Abb Vie Deutschland… · near

50
Bemis Associates · this assignee

50
Ferro · near

50
Jiaxing Super… · near

50
National University… · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bemis's Innovation Score is 50.4/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Bemis?

Each dot is one of Bemis’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). Bemis’s own 18.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Bemis's grants concentrate

Bemis Associates, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 37 CPC subclasses with 72.5% 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 2019 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Bemis sits between ASM International N.V. and Darwin Precisions Corporation.

Bemis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bemis Associates, Inc. moved from 32 to 16 grants (0.50x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

ASM International

69
Astex Therapeutics

69
Augusta Universit…

69
Bambino Prezioso…

69
Bendix Spicer Fou…

69
Christian Dior Co…

69
Cyber Power Syste…

69
Darwin Precisions

69
Bemis Associates ◀

69

What this shows Bemis holds 69 patents at rank #4,999, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bemis

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,999 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bemis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Bemis ranks #48 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Ferro Corporation 50 Abb Vie Deutschland Gmbh & Co. KG 50 Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd 50 National University Corporation Gunma University 50

Similar claim depth

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

Supercell Oy 18.1 avg Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC 18.1 avg Kerr Machine Co. 18.1 avg vArmour Networks, Inc. 18.1 avg

Bemis'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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Bemis Associates, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.4%
2016	5	7.2%
2017	5	7.2%
2018	9	13.0%
2019	12	17.4%
2020	11	15.9%
2021	9	13.0%
2022	11	15.9%
2023	2	2.9%
2024	3	4.3%
2025partial year	1	1.4%

Which technologies does Bemis Associates, Inc. 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 50

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 45

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 12

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 7

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 4

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 4

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 3

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

Top 15 of 37 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

Bemis Associates, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bemis Associates, Inc.'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), 72.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #4,999 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bemis Associates, Inc. against ASM International N.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.4/100 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

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