Where does Direct Pack, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Direct Pack, Inc. ranks #6,429 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 Direct Pack, Inc. hold?

Direct Pack, Inc. holds 52 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Direct Pack, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Direct Pack, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 26.3 out of 100 (20th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Direct Pack, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Direct Pack, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Direct Pack, Inc.'s patents?

Direct Pack, Inc.'s patents average 2.7 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 Direct Pack, 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

Direct Pack, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Direct Pack, Inc. focus on?

Direct Pack, 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 6 patents, ranking #606 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 52 granted patents across 2 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, Direct ranks #6,429 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 52 patents across 2 technology areas.

#6,429
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 20th percentile
by Innovation Score (26.3/100): 2.7
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6429 · US Corporation #6,429 · 52 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 52 grants
UPPER-Q #6,429/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CertainTeed Gypsum
CPC-NARROW B65D · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc. (±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 Direct’s 26.3 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 13.7 pts (52%) Velocity 6.0 pts (23%) Breadth 5.0 pts (19%) Claim depth 1.6 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
American Water Works · near

26
Midwest Industries · near

26
Direct Pack · this assignee

26
Shenzhen Guangyipeng… · near

26
Salutica Allied… · near

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Direct's Innovation Score is 26.3/100 (20th 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 Direct?

Each dot is one of Direct’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). Direct’s own 2.7 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Direct's grants concentrate

Direct Pack, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 11.5% 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 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Direct sits between CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc. and Federated Wireless, Inc..

Direct's three-year grant acceleration

Direct Pack, Inc. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Certainteed Gypsum

52
DUO Security

52
Dalphi Metal Espa…

52
Darktrace Holdings

52
ETH ZËRICH

52
Empower Semicondu…

52
Equistar Chemicals

52
Federated Wireless

52
Direct Pack ◀

52

What this shows Direct holds 52 patents at rank #6,430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Direct

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,430 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Direct, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Direct ranks #606 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (26 here).

Shenzhen Guangyipeng Technology Co., Ltd. 26 Midwest Industries, Inc. 26 American Water Works Company, Inc. 26 Salutica Allied Solutions SDN. BHD. 26

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (2.7 here).

Tomy Company, Ltd. 2.7 avg Arktura LLC 2.7 avg Zhejiang Orient Gene Biotech Co., Ltd 2.7 avg Mr. Bar-B-Q Products LLC 2.7 avg

Direct's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 20th percentile higher than 20% 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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Direct Pack, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	19.2%
2016	6	11.5%
2017	6	11.5%
2018	6	11.5%
2019	6	11.5%
2020	1	1.9%
2021	3	5.8%
2022	3	5.8%
2023	1	1.9%
2024	5	9.6%
2025partial year	5	9.6%

Which technologies does Direct Pack, 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 6

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

Top 2 of 2 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

Direct Pack, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Direct Pack, 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), 11.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #6,429 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Direct Pack, Inc. against CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.3/100 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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