Where does Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. ranks #2,927 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 Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. hold?

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. holds 130 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 48.7 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -48% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s patents?

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s patents average 14.2 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 Crown Packaging Technology, 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

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. focus on?

Crown Packaging Technology, 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 63 patents. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 130 granted patents across 31 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, Crown ranks #2,927 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 130 patents across 31 technology areas.

#2,927
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -48%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2927 · US Corporation #2,927 · 130 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 130 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,927/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Alcon Research
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -48% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Alcon Research, Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crown Packaging… · this assignee

49
Crystal IS · near

49
George Mason… · near

49
Intellectual… · near

49
Oce- B V · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Crown's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (top 16% 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.

Where Crown's grants concentrate

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 48.5% 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 2015 (20 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2023. By volume, Crown sits between VKR Holding A/S and Kansas State University Research Foundation.

Crown's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. moved from 38 to 21 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,564. See the growth leaderboard.

VKR Holding A/S

131
Xiamen University

131
Alcon Research

130
Butterfly Network

130
Dalian Institute…

130
Glaxo Group

130
Husky Injection M…

130
Kansas State Univ…

130
Crown Packaging T… ◀

130

What this shows Crown holds 130 patents at rank #2,927, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Crown

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,927 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Crown, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Oce-technologies B.V. 49 Crystal IS, Inc. 49 Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC 49 George Mason Research Foundation, Inc. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

The University of Toledo 14.2 avg Theranos, Inc. 14.2 avg Littelfuse, Inc. 14.2 avg Trading Technologies International, Inc. 14.2 avg

Crown's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% 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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Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	15.4%
2016	19	14.6%
2017	12	9.2%
2018	16	12.3%
2019	16	12.3%
2020	14	10.8%
2021	8	6.2%
2022	8	6.2%
2023	6	4.6%
2024	7	5.4%
2025partial year	4	3.1%

Which technologies does Crown Packaging Technology, 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 63

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 40

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 9

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 9

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 9

B41P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Printing, Lining Machines, Typewriters, AND TO Stamps 5

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B44B - Machines, Apparatus OR Tools FOR Artistic Work, e.g. FOR Sculpturing, Guilloching, Carving, Branding, Inlaying 2

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 2

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,927

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

48.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Crown Packaging Technology, 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), 48.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,927 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. against VKR Holding A/S, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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.

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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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