Where does Helen OF Troy Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Helen OF Troy Limited ranks #731 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 Helen OF Troy Limited hold?

Helen OF Troy Limited holds 622 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 59 technology areas.

What is Helen OF Troy Limited's Innovation Score?

Helen OF Troy Limited has an Innovation Score of 56.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Helen OF Troy Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Helen OF Troy Limited's recent grant velocity is +18% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Helen OF Troy Limited's patents?

Helen OF Troy Limited's patents average 4.2 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 Helen OF Troy Limited 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

Helen OF Troy Limited

Q: What technology areas does Helen OF Troy Limited focus on?

Helen OF Troy Limited'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 24 patents. Grants appear in 59 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 622 granted patents across 59 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, Helen ranks #731 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 622 patents across 59 technology areas.

#731
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.0/100): 4.2
avg claims per patent: +18%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R731 · Foreign Corporation #731 · 622 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 622 grants
TOP-DECILE #731/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH King Saud University
CPC-WIDE B65D · 59 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 4.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +18% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: King Saud University (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bottomline · near

56
Fujifilm Sonosite · near

56
Helen OF Troy · this assignee

56
Jungheinrich · near

56
University of North… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Helen's Innovation Score is 56.0/100 (top 6% 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.

How Helen's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Helen OF Troy Limited received 328 grants versus 279 in 2015–2019 (+18% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2021 at 86 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 24. Lead class B65D accounts for 3.9% of the portfolio across 59 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Lennox Industries Inc. (#727) and Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (#735).

Helen's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Helen OF Troy Limited moved from 202 to 189 grants (0.94x 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 #1,372. See the growth leaderboard.

Lennox Industries

629
Spotify AB

626
Inventio

623
Siemens Medical S…

623
King Saud Univers…

622
Osram

622
Helen OF Troy ◀

622
Baxter Internatio…

620
Siemens Energy Gl…

620

What this shows Helen holds 622 patents at rank #731, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Helen

By rank, the assignees closest to #731 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Helen, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. 56 Jungheinrich AG 56 Bottomline Technologies, Inc. 56 University of North Dakota 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (4.2 here).

W Schonbek LLC 4.2 avg Shoei Co., Ltd. 4.1 avg New Audio LLC 4.1 avg Delta Faucet Company 4.2 avg

Helen's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Helen OF Troy Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	24	3.9%
2016	41	6.6%
2017	68	10.9%
2018	83	13.3%
2019	63	10.1%
2020	53	8.5%
2021	86	13.8%
2022	65	10.5%
2023	62	10.0%
2024	62	10.0%
2025partial year	15	2.4%

Which technologies does Helen OF Troy Limited 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 24

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 21

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 14

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 13

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 9

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 9

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 6

B01D - Separation 6

G01J - Measurement OF Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase OR Pulse Characteristics OF Infrared, Visible OR Ultraviolet LIGHT; COLORIMETRY; Radiation Pyrometry 5

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 4

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 4

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 4

Top 15 of 59 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#731

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

56.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Helen OF Troy Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Helen OF Troy Limited'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), 3.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #731 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Helen OF Troy Limited against Lennox Industries Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.0/100 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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