Where does Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. ranks #812 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 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. hold?

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. holds 568 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 115 technology areas.

What is Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s Innovation Score?

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. has an Innovation Score of 59.5 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. focus on?

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s top technology area is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking) with 231 patents, ranking #1 of 1,343 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 115 CPC subclasses total.

Is Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s patents?

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s patents average 13.3 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 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. 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

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 568 granted patents across 115 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: B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tetra ranks #812 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 568 patents across 115 technology areas.

#812
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.5/100): 13.3
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R812 · Foreign Corporation #812 · 568 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 568 grants
TOP-DECILE #812/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hill-Rom Services
CPC-WIDE B65B · 115 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hill-Rom Services, Inc. (±1 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 Tetra’s 59.5 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 21.9 pts (37%) Velocity 4.6 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.0 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Docusign · near

59
Energous · near

59
Roche Sequencing… · near

59
Tetra Laval… · this assignee

59
Institute FOR… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tetra's Innovation Score is 59.5/100 (top 4% 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 Tetra?

Each dot is one of Tetra’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). Tetra’s own 13.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Tetra's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. received 240 grants versus 284 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 35. Lead class B65B accounts for 40.7% of the portfolio across 115 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Getac Technology Corporation (#808) and Electronic Arts Inc. (#816).

Tetra's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. moved from 186 to 127 grants (0.68x 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 #2,205. See the growth leaderboard.

Getac Technology

570
The Cleveland Cli…

570
Wonderland Switze…

570
Hill-rom Services

569
Tetra Laval Holdi… ◀

568
Sekisui Chemical

565
Polaris Industries

563
Under Armour

563
Arts

561

What this shows Tetra holds 568 patents at rank #812, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Tetra

By rank, the assignees closest to #812 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65B (Machines)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Tetra, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65B (Machines), Tetra ranks #1 of 1,343 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Energous Corporation 59 Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc. 59 Docusign, Inc. 59 Institute FOR Information Industry 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.3 here).

British Telecommunications public limited company 13.3 avg Lenovo (BEIJING) Limited 13.3 avg Avent, Inc. 13.3 avg BL Technologies, Inc. 13.3 avg

Tetra's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	51	9.0%
2016	39	6.9%
2017	62	10.9%
2018	59	10.4%
2019	73	12.9%
2020	60	10.6%
2021	53	9.3%
2022	42	7.4%
2023	35	6.2%
2024	50	8.8%
2025partial year	44	7.7%

Which technologies does Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. patent most?

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 231

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 137

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 102

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 78

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 58

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 48

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 36

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 33

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 33

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 29

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 27

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 24

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 22

A01J - Manufacture OF Dairy Products 21

H01J - Electric Discharge Tubes OR Discharge Lamps 18

Top 15 of 115 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

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.'s lead technology class is B65B (Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking), 40.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65B
Ranked #812 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. against Getac Technology Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.5/100 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

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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