Where does Ferrara Candy Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ferrara Candy Company ranks #14,612 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 Ferrara Candy Company hold?

Ferrara Candy Company holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 2 technology areas.

What is Ferrara Candy Company's Innovation Score?

Ferrara Candy Company has an Innovation Score of 37.0 out of 100 (top 45% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ferrara Candy Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ferrara Candy Company's recent grant velocity is +650% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ferrara Candy Company's patents?

Ferrara Candy Company's patents average 2.5 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 Ferrara Candy Company 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

Ferrara Candy Company

Q: What technology areas does Ferrara Candy Company focus on?

Ferrara Candy Company'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 1 patents, ranking #2,090 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 2 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 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, Ferrara ranks #14,612 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 2 technology areas.

#14,612
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 45%
by Innovation Score (37.0/100): 2.5
avg claims per patent: +650%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14612 · US Corporation #14,612 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,612/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Exco
CPC-NARROW B65D · 2 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 2.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +650% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Exco Technologies Limited (±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 Ferrara’s 37.0 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 10.5 pts (28%) Velocity 20.0 pts (54%) Breadth 5.0 pts (14%) Claim depth 1.5 pts (4%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ferrara Candy · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ferrara's Innovation Score is 37.0/100 (top 45% 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 Ferrara?

Each dot is one of Ferrara’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). Ferrara’s own 2.5 claims/patent is at or below the 14.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Ferrara's grants concentrate

Ferrara Candy Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 2 CPC subclasses with 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 2024 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ferrara sits between Exco Technologies Limited and Fort Hills Energy L.P..

Ferrara's three-year grant acceleration

Ferrara Candy Company shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Exco

20
F M Products

20
Fairfield Manufac…

20
Faradion

20
First RF

20
Fleece Performanc…

20
Focal Jmlab

20
Fort Hills Energy

20
Ferrara Candy ◀

20

What this shows Ferrara holds 20 patents at rank #14,610, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ferrara

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,610 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Ferrara's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 45% higher than 55% 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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Ferrara Candy Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2016	1	5.0%
2021	1	5.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2023	5	25.0%
2024	6	30.0%
2025partial year	3	15.0%

Which technologies does Ferrara Candy Company 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 1

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 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

Ferrara Candy Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ferrara Candy Company'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), 5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #14,612 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ferrara Candy Company against Exco Technologies Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.0/100 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

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