Where does International Refills Company Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), International Refills Company Limited ranks #16,899 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 International Refills Company Limited hold?

International Refills Company Limited holds 17 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is International Refills Company Limited's Innovation Score?

International Refills Company Limited has an Innovation Score of 37.5 out of 100 (top 43% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does International Refills Company Limited focus on?

International Refills Company Limited's top technology area is B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse) with 15 patents. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is International Refills Company Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

International Refills Company Limited's recent grant velocity is +100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for International Refills Company Limited's patents?

International Refills Company Limited's patents average 12.5 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 International Refills Company 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

International Refills Company Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 17 granted patents across 8 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: B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, International ranks #16,899 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 17 patents across 8 technology areas.

#16,899
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 43%
by Innovation Score (37.5/100): 12.5
avg claims per patent: +100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R16899 · Foreign Corporation #16,899 · 17 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 17 grants
MID-PACK #16,899/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Iconix
CPC-NARROW B65F · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 37.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Iconix, Inc. (±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
International Refills · this assignee

37
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows International's Innovation Score is 37.5/100 (top 43% 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.

Where International's grants concentrate

International Refills Company Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 88.2% of grants classified under B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, International sits between Institute OF Biophysics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences and Iconix, Inc..

International's three-year grant acceleration

International Refills Company Limited shows 6 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Institute OF Biop…

17
Intellivision

17
Inter-university…

17
International Ins…

17
Interquim

17
Ishikawa Gasket

17
IV

17
Iconix

17
International Ref… ◀

17

What this shows International holds 17 patents at rank #16,885, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near International

By rank, the assignees closest to #16,885 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse)

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

International's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

37 Top 43% higher than 57% 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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International Refills Company Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.9%
2016	1	5.9%
2017	1	5.9%
2018	2	11.8%
2020	1	5.9%
2021	3	17.6%
2022	1	5.9%
2023	2	11.8%
2024	3	17.6%
2025partial year	2	11.8%

Which technologies does International Refills Company Limited patent most?

B65F - Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse 15

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 9

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 5

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

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

Top 8 of 8 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#16,899

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

37.5 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

International Refills Company Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

International Refills Company Limited's lead technology class is B65F (Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse), 88.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65F
Ranked #16,899 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare International Refills Company Limited against Institute OF Biophysics, Chinese Academy OF Sciences, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 37.5/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.