Where does Elopak AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Elopak AS ranks #11,635 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 Elopak AS hold?

Elopak AS holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Elopak AS's Innovation Score?

Elopak AS has an Innovation Score of 45.0 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Elopak AS focus on?

Elopak AS's top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 8 patents, ranking #175 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Elopak AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Elopak AS's recent grant velocity is +600% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Elopak AS's patents?

Elopak AS's patents average 6.0 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 Elopak AS 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

Elopak AS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 12 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Elopak ranks #11,635 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 12 technology areas.

#11,635
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.0/100): 6.0
avg claims per patent: +600%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11635 · Foreign Corporation #11,635 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,635/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Echo Incorporated
CPC-FOCUS B65B · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +600% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Echo Incorporated (±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 Elopak’s 45.0 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 11.4 pts (25%) Velocity 17.8 pts (40%) Breadth 12.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 3.6 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Elopak AS · this assignee

45
LEM International · near

45
Mahle Filter… · near

45
SKF Magnetic… · near

45
Telescent · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Elopak's Innovation Score is 45.0/100 (top 24% 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 Elopak?

Each dot is one of Elopak’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). Elopak’s own 6.0 claims/patent is at or below the 18.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Elopak's grants concentrate

Elopak AS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Elopak sits between Emed Labs, LLC and Ensco International Incorporated.

Elopak's three-year grant acceleration

Elopak AS shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 6 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.

Emed Labs

26
Empa Eidgenössisc…

26
Evolutive Labs

26
Echo Incorporated

26
Emhart Glass

26
Endotronix

26
Energyhub

26
Ensco Internation…

26
Elopak AS ◀

26

What this shows Elopak holds 26 patents at rank #11,638, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Elopak

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,638 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Elopak, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), Elopak ranks #175 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Telescent Inc. 45 LEM International SA 45 SKF Magnetic Mechatronics 45 Mahle Filter Systems Japan Corporation 45

Elopak's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Elopak AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	1	3.8%
2018	1	3.8%
2019	1	3.8%
2020	5	19.2%
2022	1	3.8%
2023	4	15.4%
2024	11	42.3%
2025partial year	2	7.7%

Which technologies does Elopak AS patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 8

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 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 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

B67C - Cleaning, Filling With Liquids OR Semiliquids, OR Emptying, OF Bottles, Jars, Cans, Casks, Barrels, OR Similar Containers, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Funnels 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

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

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 1

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 1

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Elopak AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Elopak AS's lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #11,635 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Elopak AS against Emed Labs, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.0/100 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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