Where does Citadel Casing Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Citadel Casing Ltd ranks #39,473 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 Citadel Casing Ltd hold?

Citadel Casing Ltd holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Citadel Casing Ltd's Innovation Score?

Citadel Casing Ltd has an Innovation Score of 28.5 out of 100 (27th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Citadel Casing Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Citadel Casing Ltd's recent grant velocity is +300% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Citadel Casing Ltd's patents?

Citadel Casing Ltd's patents average 13.7 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 Citadel Casing Ltd 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

Citadel Casing Ltd

Q: What technology areas does Citadel Casing Ltd focus on?

Citadel Casing Ltd'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 4 patents, ranking #942 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 1 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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, Citadel ranks #39,473 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 1 technology areas.

#39,473
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 27th percentile
by Innovation Score (28.5/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +300%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R39473 · Foreign Corporation #39,473 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #39,473/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Circular Commitment
CPC-NARROW B65D · 1 areas
INNOV-THIN 28.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +300% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Circular Commitment Company (±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 Citadel’s 28.5 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 6.7 pts (24%) Velocity 10.0 pts (35%) Breadth 3.5 pts (12%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Citadel Casing · this assignee

28
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Citadel's Innovation Score is 28.5/100 (27th percentile 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 Citadel?

Each dot is one of Citadel’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). Citadel’s own 13.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Citadel's grants concentrate

Citadel Casing Ltd is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 66.7% 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 2024 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Citadel sits between Circular Commitment Company and Clarins Fragrance Group.

Citadel's three-year grant acceleration

Citadel Casing Ltd shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Circular Commitme…

6
Circumfix Solutio…

6
Cirrus Logic Inte…

6
Cirrus Outdoors

6
Civan Advanced

6
Civil Aviation Fl…

6
Clamp Swing Prici…

6
Clarins Fragrance…

6
Citadel Casing ◀

6

What this shows Citadel holds 6 patents at rank #39,578, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Citadel

By rank, the assignees closest to #39,578 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Citadel's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 27th percentile higher than 27% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Citadel Casing Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2022	1	16.7%
2024	2	33.3%
2025partial year	1	16.7%

Which technologies does Citadel Casing Ltd 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 4

Top 1 of 1 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

Citadel Casing Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Citadel Casing Ltd'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), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #39,473 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Citadel Casing Ltd against Circular Commitment Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 28.5/100 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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