Where does Clayton Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clayton Corporation ranks #16,688 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 Clayton Corporation hold?

Clayton Corporation holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Clayton Corporation's Innovation Score?

Clayton Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.5 out of 100 (top 25% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Clayton Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Clayton Corporation's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 Clayton Corporation's patents?

Clayton Corporation's patents average 12.3 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 Clayton 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

Clayton Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Clayton Corporation focus on?

Clayton Corporation'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 12 patents, ranking #285 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: 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, Clayton ranks #16,688 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 7 technology areas.

#16,688
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 25%
by Innovation Score (44.5/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16688 · US Corporation #16,688 · 17 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,688/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Choice Spine
CPC-NARROW B65D · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Choice Spine, LLC (±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 Clayton’s 44.5 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 10.0 pts (22%) Velocity 17.8 pts (40%) Breadth 9.4 pts (21%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Clayton · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clayton's Innovation Score is 44.5/100 (top 25% 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 Clayton?

Each dot is one of Clayton’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). Clayton’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 17.9 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Clayton's grants concentrate

Clayton Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 70.6% 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 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Clayton sits between Choice Spine, LLC and Cognizant TriZetto Software Group, Inc..

Clayton's three-year grant acceleration

Clayton Corporation shows 8 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.

Choice Spine

17
Chr Hansen HMO

17
Chromadex

17
Ciambella

17
Cloudparc

17
Colabs Internatio…

17
Cobalt Iron

17
Cognizant Trizett…

17
Clayton ◀

17

What this shows Clayton holds 17 patents at rank #16,701, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Clayton

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,701 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Clayton's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 25% higher than 75% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Clayton Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	2	11.8%
2018	3	17.6%
2019	1	5.9%
2020	1	5.9%
2021	1	5.9%
2022	2	11.8%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	4	23.5%

Which technologies does Clayton Corporation 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 12

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 4

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 2

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 1

A62C - Fire-fighting 1

Top 7 of 7 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

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

Clayton Corporation'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), 70.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #16,688 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clayton Corporation against Choice Spine, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.5/100 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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