Where does WKI Holding Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), WKI Holding Company, Inc. ranks #14,386 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 WKI Holding Company, Inc. hold?

WKI Holding Company, Inc. holds 21 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2018, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

WKI Holding Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 29.5 out of 100 (31st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s patents?

WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s patents average 7.1 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 WKI Holding Company, Inc. 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

WKI Holding Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does WKI Holding Company, Inc. focus on?

WKI Holding Company, Inc.'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, ranking #510 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 21 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2018. 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, WKI ranks #14,386 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 21 patents across 17 technology areas.

#14,386
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 31st percentile
by Innovation Score (29.5/100): 7.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14386 · US Corporation #14,386 · 21 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 21 grants
MID-PACK #14,386/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH VisCardia
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.5/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: VisCardia, Inc. (±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 WKI’s 29.5 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 10.7 pts (36%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (49%) Claim depth 4.3 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
WKI Holding · this assignee

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows WKI's Innovation Score is 29.5/100 (31st 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for WKI?

Each dot is one of WKI’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). WKI’s own 7.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where WKI's grants concentrate

WKI Holding Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 33.3% 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 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, WKI sits between VisCardia, Inc. and WWT North America Holdings, Inc..

Viscardia

21
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21
Westlake Royal Bu…

21
William Beaumont…

21
Wonders Holding BV

21
Wuxi Biologics Ir…

21
Wuxi Little Swan…

21
WWT North America…

21
WKI Holding ◀

21

What this shows WKI holds 21 patents at rank #14,377, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near WKI

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,377 in granted patent volume.

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

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

WKI's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 31st percentile higher than 31% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2018

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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WKI Holding Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	38.1%
2016	2	9.5%
2017	10	47.6%
2018	1	4.8%

Which technologies does WKI Holding Company, Inc. 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

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 4

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 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

F16J - Pistons ; CYLINDERS; Sealings 2

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 2

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 2

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 2

B28B - Shaping Clay OR Other Ceramic COMPOSITIONS; Shaping SLAG; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g. Plaster 2

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 2

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 2

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 2

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 2

Top 15 of 17 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

WKI Holding Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

WKI Holding Company, Inc.'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), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #14,386 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare WKI Holding Company, Inc. against VisCardia, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.5/100 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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