Where does Southern Champion Tray, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Southern Champion Tray, LLC ranks #37,640 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 Southern Champion Tray, LLC hold?

Southern Champion Tray, LLC holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2022, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Southern Champion Tray, LLC's Innovation Score?

Southern Champion Tray, LLC has an Innovation Score of 29.8 out of 100 (32nd percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Southern Champion Tray, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Southern Champion Tray, LLC's recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Southern Champion Tray, LLC's patents?

Southern Champion Tray, LLC's patents average 13.4 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 Southern Champion Tray, 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

Southern Champion Tray, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Southern Champion Tray, LLC focus on?

Southern Champion Tray, 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 7 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2022. 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, Southern ranks #37,640 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 5 technology areas.

#37,640
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 32nd percentile
by Innovation Score (29.8/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R37640 · US Corporation #37,640 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #37,640/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sorin Group…
CPC-NARROW B65D · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH (±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
Southern Champion Tray · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Southern's Innovation Score is 29.8/100 (32nd percentile 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 Southern's grants concentrate

Southern Champion Tray, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 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 2017 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Southern sits between Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH and Specifi-Kali, LLC.

Southern's three-year grant acceleration

Southern Champion Tray, LLC shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Sorin Group Deuts…

7
Souhegan Wood Pro…

7
Soul Vision Creat…

7
Sound View Innova…

7
Southwest Energy

7
Southwest Univers…

7
Specialites Pet F…

7
Specifi-kali

7
Southern Champion… ◀

7

What this shows Southern holds 7 patents at rank #37,691, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Southern

By rank, the assignees closest to #37,691 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Southern's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Southern Champion Tray, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	14.3%
2017	2	28.6%
2018	2	28.6%
2021	1	14.3%
2022	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Southern Champion Tray, 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 7

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

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

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#37,640

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

29.8 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

Southern Champion Tray, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Southern Champion Tray, 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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #37,640 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Southern Champion Tray, LLC against Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.8/100 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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