Where does James Alexander Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), James Alexander Corporation ranks #14,079 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 James Alexander Corporation hold?

James Alexander Corporation holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is James Alexander Corporation's Innovation Score?

James Alexander Corporation has an Innovation Score of 44.1 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is James Alexander Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

James Alexander Corporation's recent grant velocity is +180% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for James Alexander Corporation's patents?

James Alexander Corporation's patents average 28.1 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 James Alexander Corporation 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

James Alexander Corporation

Q: What technology areas does James Alexander Corporation focus on?

James Alexander Corporation'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 21 patents, ranking #159 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, James ranks #14,079 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 11 technology areas.

#14,079
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.1/100): 28.1
avg claims per patent: +180%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14079 · US Corporation #14,079 · 21 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,079/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Jarvis Products
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 11 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 28.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +180% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Jarvis Products Corporation (±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 James’s 44.1 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 10.7 pts (24%) Velocity 6.7 pts (15%) Breadth 11.7 pts (27%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
James Alexander · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows James's Innovation Score is 44.1/100 (top 26% 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 James?

Each dot is one of James’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). James’s own 28.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 6.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where James's grants concentrate

James Alexander Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, James sits between Jins Holdings Inc. and Juka Innovations Corporation.

James's three-year grant acceleration

James Alexander Corporation shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

Jins Holdings

21
Jjgc INDÚStria E…

21
Jotec

21
JVM

21
Jarvis Products

21
Jiangsu Meixin Op…

21
Jinko Green Energ…

21
Juka Innovations

21
James Alexander ◀

21

What this shows James holds 21 patents at rank #14,083, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near James

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,083 in granted patent volume.

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

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

James's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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James Alexander Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	1	4.8%
2019	4	19.0%
2020	3	14.3%
2021	2	9.5%
2022	3	14.3%
2023	4	19.0%
2024	2	9.5%
2025partial year	2	9.5%

Which technologies does James Alexander Corporation 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 21

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 16

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 9

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 9

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 7

B67B - Applying Closure Members TO Bottles Jars, OR Similar CONTAINERS; Opening Closed Containers 5

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 4

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 3

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 11 of 11 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

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James Alexander Corporation'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #14,079 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare James Alexander Corporation against Jins Holdings Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.1/100 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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