Where does Huhtamäki Oyj rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Huhtamäki Oyj ranks #16,088 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 Huhtamäki Oyj hold?

Huhtamäki Oyj holds 18 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Huhtamäki Oyj's Innovation Score?

Huhtamäki Oyj has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Huhtamäki Oyj's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Huhtamäki Oyj's recent grant velocity is -79% 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 Huhtamäki Oyj's patents?

Huhtamäki Oyj's patents average 13.0 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 Huhtamäki Oyj 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

Huhtamäki Oyj

Q: What technology areas does Huhtamäki Oyj focus on?

Huhtamäki Oyj'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 15 patents, ranking #225 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 18 granted patents across 13 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, Huhtamäki ranks #16,088 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 18 patents across 13 technology areas.

#16,088
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 13.0
avg claims per patent: -79%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16088 · Foreign Corporation #16,088 · 18 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 18 grants
MID-PACK #16,088/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Heraeus Noblelight…
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -79% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Heraeus Noblelight America 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 Huhtamäki’s 32.0 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 10.2 pts (32%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 12.7 pts (40%) Claim depth 7.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Huhtamäki Oyj · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Huhtamäki's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th percentile 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 Huhtamäki?

Each dot is one of Huhtamäki’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). Huhtamäki’s own 13.0 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Huhtamäki's grants concentrate

Huhtamäki Oyj is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 83.3% 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 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Huhtamäki sits between Heraeus Noblelight America LLC and IDT Europe GmbH.

Huhtamäki's three-year grant acceleration

Huhtamäki Oyj shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Heraeus Nobleligh…

18
Herzog Railroad S…

18
Hillenbrand Manag…

18
Hovione Scientia

18
Hydragraphix

18
Icl-ip America

18
Idhl Holdings

18
IDT Europe

18
Huhtamäki Oyj ◀

18

What this shows Huhtamäki holds 18 patents at rank #16,089, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Huhtamäki

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,089 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Huhtamäki's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% 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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Huhtamäki Oyj patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	11.1%
2016	4	22.2%
2017	2	11.1%
2018	3	16.7%
2019	3	16.7%
2020	2	11.1%
2023	1	5.6%
2025partial year	1	5.6%

Which technologies does Huhtamäki Oyj 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 15

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

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 5

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 4

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 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

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

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 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Huhtamäki Oyj's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Huhtamäki Oyj'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), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #16,088 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Huhtamäki Oyj against Heraeus Noblelight America LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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