Where does Cascades Sonoco Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cascades Sonoco Inc. ranks #34,675 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 Cascades Sonoco Inc. hold?

Cascades Sonoco Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Cascades Sonoco Inc. has an Innovation Score of 37.3 out of 100 (top 44% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +150% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s patents?

Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s patents average 22.4 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 Cascades Sonoco 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 Foreign Corporation

Cascades Sonoco Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Cascades Sonoco Inc. focus on?

Cascades Sonoco Inc.'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 7 patents, ranking #59 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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, Cascades ranks #34,675 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 12 technology areas.

#34,675
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 44%
by Innovation Score (37.3/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: +150%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34675 · Foreign Corporation #34,675 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,675/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cargotec Finland Oy
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.3/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +150% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cargotec Finland Oy (±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 Cascades’s 37.3 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 7.2 pts (19%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 12.2 pts (33%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cascades Sonoco · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cascades's Innovation Score is 37.3/100 (top 44% 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 Cascades?

Each dot is one of Cascades’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). Cascades’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Cascades's grants concentrate

Cascades Sonoco Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2020 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Cascades sits between Cargotec Finland Oy and Caterpillar Forest Products Inc..

Cascades's three-year grant acceleration

Cascades Sonoco Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 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.

Cargotec Finland…

7
Carlson Paving Pr…

7
Casa Vigar SL

7
Cascade Mountain

7
Casepoint

7
Castle Fit

7
Caterpillar (NI)

7
Caterpillar Fores…

7
Cascades Sonoco ◀

7

What this shows Cascades holds 7 patents at rank #34,792, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cascades

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,792 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Cascades's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 44% higher than 56% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cascades Sonoco Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	14.3%
2018	1	14.3%
2020	3	42.9%
2023	1	14.3%
2024	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Cascades Sonoco Inc. 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 7

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

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 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

D21J - FIBREBOARD; Manufacture OF Articles From Cellulosic Fibrous Suspensions OR From Papier-mache 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

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 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Cascades Sonoco Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cascades Sonoco Inc.'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #34,675 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cascades Sonoco Inc. against Cargotec Finland Oy, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.3/100 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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