Where does Niagara Bottling, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Niagara Bottling, LLC ranks #3,329 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 Niagara Bottling, LLC hold?

Niagara Bottling, LLC holds 112 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Niagara Bottling, LLC's Innovation Score?

Niagara Bottling, LLC has an Innovation Score of 57.5 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Niagara Bottling, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Niagara Bottling, LLC's recent grant velocity is +219% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Niagara Bottling, LLC's patents?

Niagara Bottling, LLC's patents average 10.1 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 Niagara Bottling, 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

Niagara Bottling, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Niagara Bottling, LLC focus on?

Niagara Bottling, 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 43 patents, ranking #59 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 112 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, Niagara ranks #3,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 112 patents across 32 technology areas.

#3,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.5/100): 10.1
avg claims per patent: +219%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3329 · US Corporation #3,329 · 112 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 112 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,329/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Inspire Medical…
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.5/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +219% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Inspire Medical Systems, 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.

How Niagara’s 57.5 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 16.3 pts (28%) Velocity 15.2 pts (26%) Breadth 20.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 6.1 pts (11%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ITT Manufacturing… · near

58
Kobe Steel · near

58
LG Household &… · near

58
Niagara Bottling · this assignee

58
Saes Getters S P A · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Niagara's Innovation Score is 57.5/100 (top 5% 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 Niagara?

Each dot is one of Niagara’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). Niagara’s own 10.1 claims/patent is at or below the 12.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Niagara's grants concentrate

Niagara Bottling, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 38.4% 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 2024 (21 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Niagara sits between Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. and Tsmc China Company, Limited.

Niagara's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Niagara Bottling, LLC moved from 22 to 50 grants (2.27x 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 #148. See the growth leaderboard.

Inspire Medical S…

112
International Eng…

112
Kyowa Hakko Kirin

112
Nippon Pillar Pac…

112
Pixar

112
Queen's Universit…

112
Sandisk 3D

112
Tsmc China

112
Niagara Bottling ◀

112

What this shows Niagara holds 112 patents at rank #3,330, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Niagara

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,330 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Niagara, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Niagara ranks #59 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

LG Household & Health Care Ltd. 58 ITT Manufacturing Enterprises LLC 58 Saes Getters S.P.A. 58 Kobe Steel Ltd. 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (10.1 here).

Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. 10.1 avg Technology Research Association FOR Future Additive Manufacturing 10.1 avg Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd. 10.1 avg Omrix Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. 10.1 avg

Niagara's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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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Niagara Bottling, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	3.6%
2016	3	2.7%
2017	1	0.9%
2018	8	7.1%
2019	5	4.5%
2020	9	8.0%
2021	8	7.1%
2022	13	11.6%
2023	16	14.3%
2024	21	18.8%
2025partial year	24	21.4%

Which technologies does Niagara Bottling, 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 43

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 37

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 24

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 22

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 21

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 9

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 7

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 6

B60Q - Arrangement OF Signalling OR Lighting Devices, THE Mounting OR Supporting Thereof OR Circuits Therefor, FOR Vehicles IN General 4

E06B - Fixed OR Movable Closures FOR Openings IN Buildings, Vehicles, Fences OR Like Enclosures IN General, e.g. Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates 4

B60P - Vehicles Adapted FOR Load Transportation OR TO Transport, TO Carry, OR TO Comprise Special Loads OR Objects 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

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

Niagara Bottling, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Niagara Bottling, 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), 38.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #3,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Niagara Bottling, LLC against Inspire Medical Systems, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.5/100 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

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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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