Greif, Inc. (GEF)
NYSE: GEF · Metal Shipping Barrels, Drums, Kegs & Pails · Delaware, OH · filing with the SEC since 1994
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 202673 patents granted to the 10 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Greif, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
73
61 utility, 12 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 2 in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
19
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
10
a subsidiary, a former name, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Mechanical elements4
Textile and paper machines2
Furniture, games1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name10 counted
American Flange & Manufacturing Co., Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Greif Packaging LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
11 published
CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Reliance Products Ltd. a subsidiary
CA, as the owner printed on each patent. 5 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US)
0 published
Greif Brothers Company a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Greif Packaging LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 published
Greif, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Reliance Products Ltd. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
1 published
Soterra LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
The Newark Group, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,372,135 | Driveshaft damper | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Mar 5, 2024 | 11,920,653 | Driveshaft damper | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Feb 27, 2024 | 11,913,516 | Driveshaft damper | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Oct 10, 2023 | 11,781,617 | Driveshaft-damper tuning | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Oct 3, 2023 | 11,773,540 | Thick-caliper laminated paperboard and methods for making the same | Textile and paper machines | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Aug 3, 2021 | 11,078,629 | Thick-caliper laminated paperboard and methods for making the same | Textile and paper machines | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Jun 15, 2021 | 11,033,149 | Portable cooking grill with folding table panels for communal grilling | Furniture, games | Reliance Products Ltd. |
| Nov 24, 2020 | 10,844,928 | Methods for making driveshaft dampers | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| May 5, 2020 | 10,641,354 | Composite drive shaft damper | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
| Dec 17, 2019 | 10,508,681 | Drive shaft damper | Mechanical elements | CARAUSTAR INDUSTRIAL AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP, INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.