Where does Packaging Corporation of America rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Packaging Corporation of America ranks #14,199 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 Packaging Corporation of America hold?

Packaging Corporation of America holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Packaging Corporation of America's Innovation Score?

Packaging Corporation of America has an Innovation Score of 52.7 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Packaging Corporation of America's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Packaging Corporation of America's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Packaging Corporation of America's patents?

Packaging Corporation of America's patents average 23.9 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 Packaging Corporation of America 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

Packaging Corporation of America

Q: What technology areas does Packaging Corporation of America focus on?

Packaging Corporation of America'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 17 patents, ranking #191 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Packaging ranks #14,199 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 13 technology areas.

#14,199
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.7/100): 23.9
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14199 · US Corporation #14,199 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,199/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Petromac IP
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 13 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.7/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Petromac IP Limited (±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 Packaging’s 52.7 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 (20%) Velocity 15.0 pts (28%) Breadth 12.7 pts (24%) Claim depth 14.3 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Packaging of America · this assignee

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Packaging's Innovation Score is 52.7/100 (top 10% 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 Packaging?

Each dot is one of Packaging’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). Packaging’s own 23.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Packaging's grants concentrate

Packaging Corporation of America is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 81% 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 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Packaging sits between Petromac IP Limited and Piaggio Fast Forward Inc..

Packaging's three-year grant acceleration

Packaging Corporation of America shows 9 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.

Petromac IP

21
Powercell Sweden…

21
Prime Polymer

21
Pulmocide

21
Petrowell

21
Phibro Animal Hea…

21
Physiowave

21
Piaggio Fast Forw…

21
Packaging of Amer… ◀

21

What this shows Packaging holds 21 patents at rank #14,203, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Packaging

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,203 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Packaging's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Packaging Corporation of America patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	14.3%
2016	1	4.8%
2017	2	9.5%
2018	2	9.5%
2019	1	4.8%
2020	2	9.5%
2021	1	4.8%
2022	6	28.6%
2023	2	9.5%
2024	1	4.8%

Which technologies does Packaging Corporation of America 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 17

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 2

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 2

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

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

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

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

Packaging Corporation of America's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Packaging Corporation of America'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), 81% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #14,199 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Packaging Corporation of America against Petromac IP Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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