Where does WestRock Shared Services, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WestRock Shared Services, LLC ranks #2,404 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 Shared Services, LLC hold?

WestRock Shared Services, LLC holds 163 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 29 technology areas.

What is WestRock Shared Services, LLC's Innovation Score?

WestRock Shared Services, LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.3 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 WestRock Shared Services, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WestRock Shared Services, LLC's recent grant velocity is +58% 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 Shared Services, LLC's patents?

WestRock Shared Services, LLC's patents average 16.1 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 Shared Services, 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 Shared Services, LLC

Q: What technology areas does WestRock Shared Services, LLC focus on?

WestRock Shared Services, 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 128 patents, ranking #11 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 29 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 163 granted patents across 29 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 #2,404 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 163 patents across 29 technology areas.

#2,404
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.3/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: +58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2404 · US Corporation #2,404 · 163 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 163 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,404/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lanxess Deutschland
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 29 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lanxess 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.

How Westrock’s 52.3 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 17.6 pts (34%) Velocity 6.0 pts (11%) Breadth 19.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Westerngeco L L C · near

52
Flatiron Health · near

52
WestRock Shared… · this assignee

52
Click Therapeutics · near

52
Toshiba International · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Westrock's Innovation Score is 52.3/100 (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 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 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 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 Shared Services, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 29 CPC subclasses with 78.5% 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 2021 (23 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Westrock sits between Lanxess Deutschland GmbH and Embraer S.A..

Westrock's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, WestRock Shared Services, LLC moved from 56 to 50 grants (0.89x 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 #1,499. See the growth leaderboard.

Lanxess Deutschla…

163
Metal Industries…

163
Moog

163
SG Gaming

163
Zumtobel Lighting

163
Westrock Shared S… ◀

163
Beijing Jingdong…

162
Board of Trustees…

162
Embraer

162

What this shows WestRock holds 163 patents at rank #2,404, 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 #2,404 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 #11 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Flatiron Health, Inc. 52 Toshiba International Corporation 52 Click Therapeutics, Inc. 52 Westerngeco L.L.C. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.1 here).

Wayne Fueling Systems LLC 16.1 avg Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. 16.1 avg KunShan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd 16.1 avg Dana Italia S.R.L. 16.1 avg

Westrock's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 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 · 2015–2025

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 Shared Services, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.2%
2016	12	7.4%
2017	19	11.7%
2018	16	9.8%
2019	11	6.7%
2020	22	13.5%
2021	23	14.1%
2022	15	9.2%
2023	19	11.7%
2024	16	9.8%
2025partial year	8	4.9%

Which technologies does WestRock Shared Services, 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 128

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 79

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 11

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 11

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 6

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

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 2

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 2

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 2

Top 15 of 29 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 Shared Services, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

WestRock Shared Services, 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), 78.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,404 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare WestRock Shared Services, LLC against Lanxess Deutschland GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.3/100 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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