Where does Dixie Consumer Products LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dixie Consumer Products LLC ranks #15,960 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 Dixie Consumer Products LLC hold?

Dixie Consumer Products LLC holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Dixie Consumer Products LLC's Innovation Score?

Dixie Consumer Products LLC has an Innovation Score of 35.5 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dixie Consumer Products LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dixie Consumer Products LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Dixie Consumer Products LLC's patents?

Dixie Consumer Products LLC's patents average 23.7 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 Dixie Consumer Products LLC 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

Dixie Consumer Products LLC

Q: What technology areas does Dixie Consumer Products LLC focus on?

Dixie Consumer Products LLC'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 9 patents, ranking #386 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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, Dixie ranks #15,960 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 10 technology areas.

#15,960
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.5/100): 23.7
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15960 · US Corporation #15,960 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #15,960/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH DeuteRx
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.5/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: DeuteRx, 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 Dixie’s 35.5 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 10.2 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 14.2 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dixie Consumer… · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dixie's Innovation Score is 35.5/100 (top 49% 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 Dixie?

Each dot is one of Dixie’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). Dixie’s own 23.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Dixie's grants concentrate

Dixie Consumer Products LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2016 (8 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2015. By volume, Dixie sits between DeuteRx, LLC and Dorel Home Furnishings, Inc..

Deuterx

18
Diageo North Amer…

18
Direct Supply

18
Distance Oy

18
Domtar Paper

18
Dong Guan Bright…

18
Dongguan Zhengyan…

18
Dorel Home Furnis…

18
Dixie Consumer Pr… ◀

18

What this shows Dixie holds 18 patents at rank #15,963, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dixie

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,963 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Dixie's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Dixie Consumer Products LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	22.2%
2016	8	44.4%
2017	6	33.3%

Which technologies does Dixie Consumer Products LLC 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 9

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 7

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 5

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

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

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Dixie Consumer Products LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dixie Consumer Products LLC'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), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #15,960 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dixie Consumer Products LLC against DeuteRx, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.5/100 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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