Where does Jatco Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Jatco Ltd ranks #1,145 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 Jatco Ltd hold?

Jatco Ltd holds 370 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Jatco Ltd's Innovation Score?

Jatco Ltd has an Innovation Score of 55.0 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Jatco Ltd focus on?

Jatco Ltd's top technology area is F16H (Gearing) with 342 patents. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

Is Jatco Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Jatco Ltd's recent grant velocity is +3% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Jatco Ltd's patents?

Jatco Ltd's patents average 7.4 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 Jatco Ltd 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 Foreign Corporation

Jatco Ltd

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 370 granted patents across 50 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: F16H (Gearing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Jatco ranks #1,145 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 370 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,145
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.0/100): 7.4
avg claims per patent: +3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1145 · Foreign Corporation #1,145 · 370 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 370 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,145/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ball Horticultural
CPC-WIDE F16H · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.0/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 7.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ball Horticultural Company (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arizona Board of… · near

55
Atlas Copco… · near

55
GE Energy Power… · near

55
Xiamen ECO Lighting · near

55
Jatco · this assignee

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Jatco's Innovation Score is 55.0/100 (top 7% 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.

How Jatco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Jatco Ltd received 175 grants versus 170 in 2015–2019 (+3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 53 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 22. Lead class F16H accounts for 92.4% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Ball Horticultural Company (#1,141) and Mars, Incorporated (#1,149).

Jatco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Jatco Ltd moved from 125 to 96 grants (0.77x 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 #1,940. See the growth leaderboard.

Ball Horticultural

370
Dentsply Sirona

370
Eagle Industry

370
Ivoclar Vivadent

370
Welch Allyn

370
Jatco ◀

370
AAC Optics Soluti…

369
GE Video Compress…

369
Mars Incorporated

369

What this shows Jatco holds 370 patents at rank #1,145, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Jatco

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,145 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16H (Gearing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Jatco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Xiamen ECO Lighting Co. Ltd. 55 GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Limited 55 Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB 55 Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Northern Arizona University 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (7.4 here).

Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd. 7.4 avg Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. 7.4 avg Daio Paper Corporation 7.4 avg Infobridge PTE. Ltd. 7.4 avg

Jatco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Jatco Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	42	11.4%
2016	22	5.9%
2017	29	7.8%
2018	31	8.4%
2019	46	12.4%
2020	53	14.3%
2021	26	7.0%
2022	31	8.4%
2023	33	8.9%
2024	32	8.6%
2025partial year	25	6.8%

Which technologies does Jatco Ltd patent most?

F16H - Gearing 342

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 125

B60Y - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology 73

B60K - Arrangement OR Mounting OF Propulsion Units OR OF Transmissions IN VEHICLES; Arrangement OR Mounting OF Plural Diverse Prime-movers IN VEHICLES; Auxiliary Drives FOR VEHICLES; Instrumentation OR Dashboards FOR VEHICLES; Arrangements IN Connection With Cooling, AIR Intake, GAS Exhaust OR Fuel Supply 71

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 66

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 47

F02D - Controlling Combustion Engines 30

B60L - Propulsion OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Supplying Electric Power FOR Auxiliary Equipment OF Electrically-propelled Vehicles ; Electrodynamic Brake Systems FOR Vehicles IN General ; Magnetic Suspension OR Levitation FOR VEHICLES; Monitoring Operating Variables OF Electrically-propelled Vehicl 25

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 20

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 16

F15B - Systems Acting BY Means OF Fluids IN GENERAL; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g. SERVOMOTORS; Details OF Fluid-pressure Systems, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

F02N - Starting OF Combustion ENGINES; Starting Aids FOR Such Engines, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

B60T - Vehicle Brake Control Systems OR Parts THEREOF; Brake Control Systems OR Parts Thereof, IN General ; Arrangement OF Braking Elements ON Vehicles IN GENERAL; Portable Devices FOR Preventing Unwanted Movement OF VEHICLES; Vehicle Modifications TO Facilitate Cooling OF Brakes 7

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 6

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 5

Top 15 of 50 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,145

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

55.0 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Jatco Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Jatco Ltd's lead technology class is F16H (Gearing), 92.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16H
Ranked #1,145 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Jatco Ltd against Ball Horticultural Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.0/100 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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