Where does WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC ranks #2,907 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 WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC hold?

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC holds 132 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's Innovation Score?

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.3 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's recent grant velocity is +128% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's patents?

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's patents average 17.3 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 WestRock Packaging Systems, 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

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC

Q: What technology areas does WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC focus on?

WestRock Packaging Systems, 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 103 patents, ranking #16 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 132 granted patents across 7 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, Westrock ranks #2,907 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 132 patents across 7 technology areas.

#2,907
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.3/100): 17.3
avg claims per patent: +128%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2907 · US Corporation #2,907 · 132 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 132 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,907/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Space Exploration
CPC-NARROW B65D · 7 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +128% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (±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 Westrock’s 48.3 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 16.9 pts (35%) Velocity 11.6 pts (24%) Breadth 9.4 pts (19%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Android Industries · near

48
Durr Systems · near

48
Evapco · near

48
Moxa · near

48
WestRock Packaging… · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Westrock's Innovation Score is 48.3/100 (top 17% 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 Westrock?

Each dot is one of Westrock’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). Westrock’s own 17.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Westrock's grants concentrate

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 78% 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 2024 (28 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Westrock sits between Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Diversey, Inc..

Westrock's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC moved from 35 to 61 grants (1.74x 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 #297. See the growth leaderboard.

Space Exploration

132
Translate BIO

132
Trinity Bay Equip…

132
Werner

132
Westrock Packagin… ◀

132
Ashley Furniture…

131
Brandeis Universi…

131
Broan-nutone

131
Diversey

131

What this shows WestRock holds 132 patents at rank #2,907, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near WestRock

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,907 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for WestRock, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), WestRock ranks #16 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Evapco, Inc. 48 Moxa Inc. 48 Durr Systems, Inc. 48 Android Industries LLC 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.3 here).

Hunter Industries, Inc. 17.3 avg Persimmon Technologies Corporation 17.3 avg ZF CV Systems Europe BV 17.3 avg Technische Universiteit Delft 17.3 avg

Westrock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.5%
2016	9	6.8%
2017	6	4.5%
2018	5	3.8%
2019	14	10.6%
2020	12	9.1%
2021	9	6.8%
2022	17	12.9%
2023	16	12.1%
2024	28	21.2%
2025partial year	14	10.6%

Which technologies does WestRock Packaging Systems, 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 103

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 22

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 13

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 10

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

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 1

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

Top 7 of 7 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

WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

WestRock Packaging Systems, 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), 78% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,907 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC against Space Exploration Technologies Corp., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.3/100 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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