Where does Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH ranks #4,389 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 Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH hold?

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH holds 81 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's Innovation Score?

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH has an Innovation Score of 38.4 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's recent grant velocity is -14% 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 Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's patents?

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's patents average 14.0 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 Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH 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

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH

Q: What technology areas does Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH focus on?

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH'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 61 patents, ranking #33 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 81 granted patents across 11 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, Obrist ranks #4,389 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 81 patents across 11 technology areas.

#4,389
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.4/100): 14.0
avg claims per patent: -14%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4389 · Foreign Corporation #4,389 · 81 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 81 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,389/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Korrus
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -14% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Korrus, 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 Obrist’s 38.4 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 15.2 pts (40%) Velocity 3.0 pts (8%) Breadth 11.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Freudenberg-NOK… · near

38
Ipex · near

38
LanzaTech New Zealand · near

38
NL Giken Incorporated · near

38
Obrist Closures… · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Obrist's Innovation Score is 38.4/100 (top 41% 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 Obrist?

Each dot is one of Obrist’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). Obrist’s own 14.0 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Obrist's grants concentrate

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 75.3% 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 2019 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Obrist sits between Korrus, Inc. and Rex Medical, L.P..

Obrist's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH moved from 38 to 17 grants (0.45x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Korrus

81
Musashi Engineeri…

81
Molten Metal Equi…

81
Natura COSMÉTicos

81
Onkyo

81
Pierre Fabre MÉDi…

81
Poly-america

81
Rex Medical

81
Obrist Closures S… ◀

81

What this shows Obrist holds 81 patents at rank #4,388, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Obrist

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,388 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Obrist, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Obrist ranks #33 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

LanzaTech New Zealand Limited 38 Ipex Technologies Inc. 38 Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership 38 NL Giken Incorporated 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.0 here).

Avogy, Inc. 14.0 avg AMO Development, LLC 14.0 avg Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited 14.0 avg Asia Optical International Ltd. 14.0 avg

Obrist's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% 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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Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	12	14.8%
2016	1	1.2%
2017	5	6.2%
2018	5	6.2%
2019	19	23.5%
2020	9	11.1%
2021	10	12.3%
2022	1	1.2%
2023	10	12.3%
2024	6	7.4%
2025partial year	3	3.7%

Which technologies does Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH 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 61

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

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 7

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 5

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

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 2

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 2

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 1

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 1

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

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH'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), 75.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #4,389 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Obrist Closures Switzerland GMBH against Korrus, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.4/100 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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