Where does Graphic Packaging International, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Graphic Packaging International, LLC ranks #879 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 Graphic Packaging International, LLC hold?

Graphic Packaging International, LLC holds 516 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Graphic Packaging International, LLC's Innovation Score?

Graphic Packaging International, LLC has an Innovation Score of 63.0 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Graphic Packaging International, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Graphic Packaging International, LLC's recent grant velocity is -22% 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 Graphic Packaging International, LLC's patents?

Graphic Packaging International, LLC's patents average 23.5 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 Graphic Packaging International, 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

Graphic Packaging International, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Graphic Packaging International, LLC focus on?

Graphic Packaging International, 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 329 patents, ranking #2 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 516 granted patents across 32 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, Graphic ranks #879 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 516 patents across 32 technology areas.

#879
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (63.0/100): 23.5
avg claims per patent: -22%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R879 · US Corporation #879 · 516 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 516 grants
TOP-DECILE #879/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dish Network L L C
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 32 areas
INNOV-STRONG 63.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -22% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dish Network L.L.C. (±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 Graphic’s 63.0 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 21.6 pts (34%) Velocity 7.3 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 14.1 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hill Phoenix · near

63
The Mitre · near

63
Graphic Packaging… · this assignee

63
Omnissa · near

63
Shenzhen Goodix… · near

63
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Graphic's Innovation Score is 63.0/100 (top 2% 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 Graphic?

Each dot is one of Graphic’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). Graphic’s own 23.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Graphic's grants concentrate

Graphic Packaging International, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 63.8% 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 2019 (61 grants) versus a trough of 29 in 2021. By volume, Graphic sits between Graco Minnesota Inc. and Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH.

Graphic's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Graphic Packaging International, LLC moved from 128 to 140 grants (1.09x 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 #970. See the growth leaderboard.

Graco Minnesota

517
The Florida Inter…

517
Xi'an Zhongxing N…

517
Dish Network L L C

516
Oticon A/S

516
Graphic Packaging… ◀

516
Board OF Trustees…

515
Cfph

514
Bayer Intellectua…

513

What this shows Graphic holds 516 patents at rank #879, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Graphic

By rank, the assignees closest to #879 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Graphic, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Graphic ranks #2 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (63 here).

The Mitre Corporation 63 Hill Phoenix, Inc. 63 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd. 63 Omnissa, LLC 63

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.5 here).

Cochlear Limited 23.5 avg Terrapower, LLC 23.5 avg Matterport, Inc. 23.4 avg Exo Imaging, Inc. 23.4 avg

Graphic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

63 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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Graphic Packaging International, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	60	11.6%
2016	52	10.1%
2017	52	10.1%
2018	39	7.6%
2019	61	11.8%
2020	38	7.4%
2021	29	5.6%
2022	49	9.5%
2023	44	8.5%
2024	47	9.1%
2025partial year	45	8.7%

Which technologies does Graphic Packaging International, 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 329

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 120

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 110

H05B - Electric HEATING; Electric Light Sources NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Circuit Arrangements FOR Electric Light Sources, IN General 28

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 27

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 22

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 18

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 15

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 14

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 8

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 8

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 7

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 7

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 7

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 7

Top 15 of 32 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

Graphic Packaging International, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Graphic Packaging International, 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), 63.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #879 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Graphic Packaging International, LLC against Graco Minnesota Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 63.0/100 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

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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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