Where does Thermos L.L.C. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Thermos L.L.C. ranks #2,233 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 Thermos L.L.C. hold?

Thermos L.L.C. holds 176 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Thermos L.L.C.'s Innovation Score?

Thermos L.L.C. has an Innovation Score of 35.7 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Thermos L.L.C.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Thermos L.L.C.'s recent grant velocity is -50% 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 Thermos L.L.C.'s patents?

Thermos L.L.C.'s patents average 3.4 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 Thermos L.L.C. 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

Thermos L.L.C.

Q: What technology areas does Thermos L.L.C. focus on?

Thermos L.L.C.'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 19 patents, ranking #176 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 176 granted patents across 13 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, Thermos ranks #2,233 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 176 patents across 13 technology areas.

#2,233
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.7/100): 3.4
avg claims per patent: -50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2233 · US Corporation #2,233 · 176 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 176 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,233/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Panasonic Automotive…
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 3.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America (±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 Thermos’s 35.7 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 17.9 pts (50%) Velocity 3.1 pts (9%) Breadth 12.7 pts (36%) Claim depth 2.0 pts (6%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
MTG · near

36
BioVentrix · near

36
KnuEdge Incorporated · near

36
Thermos L L C · this assignee

36
Seasonal Specialties · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Thermos's Innovation Score is 35.7/100 (top 48% 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 Thermos?

Each dot is one of Thermos’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). Thermos’s own 3.4 claims/patent is at or below the 13.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Thermos's grants concentrate

Thermos L.L.C. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 10.8% 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 (32 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2022. By volume, Thermos sits between Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America and Beijing University OF Technology.

Thermos's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Thermos L.L.C. moved from 50 to 23 grants (0.46x 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 #2,780. See the growth leaderboard.

Panasonic Automot…

176
Roland DG

176
Rapiscan Systems

176
Toshiba Materials

176
US Conec

176
Wincor Nixdorf In…

176
Thermos L L C ◀

176
Ambarella Interna…

175
Beijing Universit…

175

What this shows Thermos holds 176 patents at rank #2,234, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Thermos

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,234 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Thermos, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Thermos ranks #176 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

BioVentrix, Inc. 36 KnuEdge Incorporated 36 MTG Co., Ltd. 36 Seasonal Specialties, LLC 36

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (3.4 here).

Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. 3.4 avg Shenzhen Lanhe Technologies Co., Ltd. 3.4 avg Qizhi Software (BEIJING) Company Limited 3.4 avg Natura COSMÉTICOS S.A. 3.4 avg

Thermos's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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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Thermos L.L.C. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	11.9%
2016	23	13.1%
2017	32	18.2%
2018	19	10.8%
2019	17	9.7%
2020	24	13.6%
2021	9	5.1%
2022	4	2.3%
2023	9	5.1%
2024	10	5.7%
2025partial year	8	4.5%

Which technologies does Thermos L.L.C. 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 19

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 9

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 9

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 5

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 2

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 2

C25B - Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Processes FOR THE Production OF Compounds OR NON-METALS; Apparatus Therefor 1

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

B01D - Separation 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 1

B23Q - Details, Components, OR Accessories FOR Machine Tools, e.g. Arrangements FOR Copying OR Controlling ; Machine Tools IN General Characterised BY THE Construction OF Particular Details OR COMPONENTS; Combinations OR Associations OF Metal-working Machines, NOT Directed TO A Particular Result 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 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

Thermos L.L.C.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Thermos L.L.C.'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), 10.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,233 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Thermos L.L.C. against Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.7/100 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

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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