Where does Gojo Industries, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gojo Industries, Inc. ranks #1,165 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 Gojo Industries, Inc. hold?

Gojo Industries, Inc. holds 365 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 77 technology areas.

What is Gojo Industries, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Gojo Industries, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Gojo Industries, Inc. focus on?

Gojo Industries, Inc.'s top technology area is A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories) with 220 patents, ranking #1 of 376 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 77 CPC subclasses total.

Is Gojo Industries, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gojo Industries, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Gojo Industries, Inc.'s patents?

Gojo Industries, Inc.'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 Gojo Industries, 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

Gojo Industries, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 365 granted patents across 77 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: A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gojo ranks #1,165 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 365 patents across 77 technology areas.

#1,165
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 16.1
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1165 · US Corporation #1,165 · 365 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 365 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,165/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Dish Wireless L L C
CPC-WIDE A47K · 77 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Dish Wireless L.L.C. (±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 Gojo’s 59.7 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 20.4 pts (34%) Velocity 4.7 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Beijing Xiaomi… · near

60
Gojo Industries · this assignee

60
Grail · near

60
Lexmark International · near

60
NCR Atleos · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gojo's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Gojo?

Each dot is one of Gojo’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). Gojo’s own 16.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Gojo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gojo Industries, Inc. received 150 grants versus 206 in 2015–2019 (-27% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2018 at 52 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 20. Lead class A47K accounts for 60.3% of the portfolio across 77 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (#1,161) and Karl Storz SE & Co. KG (#1,169).

Gojo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gojo Industries, Inc. moved from 117 to 82 grants (0.70x 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 #2,145. See the growth leaderboard.

Westinghouse Elec…

367
Arcelormittal

366
City of Hope

366
Dish Wireless L L…

365
HFI Innovation

365
Purdue Pharma

365
Gojo Industries ◀

365
Excalibur IP

364
Karl Storz SE & KG

364

What this shows Gojo holds 365 patents at rank #1,165, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gojo

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,165 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47K (Sanitary Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gojo, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A47K (Sanitary Equipment), Gojo ranks #1 of 376 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Lexmark International, Inc. 60 Beijing Xiaomi Pinecone Electronics Co., Ltd. 60 Grail, Inc. 60 NCR Atleos Corporation 60

Similar claim depth

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

Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. 16.1 avg Trane International Inc. 16.1 avg Opple Lighting Co., Ltd. 16.1 avg Eaton Intelligent Power Limited 16.1 avg

Gojo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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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Gojo Industries, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	10.1%
2016	25	6.8%
2017	43	11.8%
2018	52	14.2%
2019	49	13.4%
2020	33	9.0%
2021	35	9.6%
2022	27	7.4%
2023	35	9.6%
2024	20	5.5%
2025partial year	9	2.5%

Which technologies does Gojo Industries, Inc. patent most?

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 220

B05B - Spraying APPARATUS; Atomising APPARATUS; Nozzles 123

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 41

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 38

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 31

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 29

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 28

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 22

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 21

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 19

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 16

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 15

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 15

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 14

Top 15 of 77 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

Gojo Industries, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gojo Industries, Inc.'s lead technology class is A47K (Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories), 60.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47K
Ranked #1,165 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gojo Industries, Inc. against Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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.

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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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