Where does Billerudkorsnas AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Billerudkorsnas AB ranks #16,632 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 Billerudkorsnas AB hold?

Billerudkorsnas AB holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Billerudkorsnas AB's Innovation Score?

Billerudkorsnas AB has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Billerudkorsnas AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Billerudkorsnas AB's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Billerudkorsnas AB's patents?

Billerudkorsnas AB's patents average 17.8 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 Billerudkorsnas AB 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

Billerudkorsnas AB

Q: What technology areas does Billerudkorsnas AB focus on?

Billerudkorsnas AB's top technology area is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 15 patents, ranking #27 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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: D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Billerudkorsnas ranks #16,632 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 17 technology areas.

#16,632
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16632 · Foreign Corporation #16,632 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,632/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bien-air Holding
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 17 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bien-air Holding SA (±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 Billerudkorsnas’s 45.9 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 10.0 pts (22%) Velocity 10.7 pts (23%) Breadth 14.6 pts (32%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arrcus · near

46
Billerudkorsnas AB · this assignee

46
Danfoss Power… · near

46
Emulate · near

46
Silego Technology · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Billerudkorsnas's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Billerudkorsnas?

Each dot is one of Billerudkorsnas’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). Billerudkorsnas’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Billerudkorsnas's grants concentrate

Billerudkorsnas AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 88.2% of grants classified under D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Billerudkorsnas sits between Bien-air Holding SA and Bnsf Logistics, LLC.

Billerudkorsnas's three-year grant acceleration

Billerudkorsnas AB shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Bien-air Holding

17
BIG Time Investme…

17
BIG Time Products

17
BILL COM

17
Bioo Scientific

17
Biosceptre (AUST)…

17
Black Card

17
Bnsf Logistics

17
Billerudkorsnas AB ◀

17

What this shows Billerudkorsnas holds 17 patents at rank #16,629, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Billerudkorsnas

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,629 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Billerudkorsnas, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21H (Pulp Compositions), Billerudkorsnas ranks #27 of 361 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Silego Technology Inc. 46 Arrcus Inc. 46 Danfoss Power Solutions APS 46 Emulate, Inc. 46

Billerudkorsnas's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Billerudkorsnas AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	11.8%
2019	3	17.6%
2020	2	11.8%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	3	17.6%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	2	11.8%

Which technologies does Billerudkorsnas AB patent most?

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

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 10

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

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

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 4

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 3

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

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

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

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 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 2

D21J - FIBREBOARD; Manufacture OF Articles From Cellulosic Fibrous Suspensions OR From Papier-mache 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Billerudkorsnas AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Billerudkorsnas AB's lead technology class is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw), 88.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #16,632 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Billerudkorsnas AB against Bien-air Holding SA, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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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