Where does John Bean Technologies Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), John Bean Technologies Corporation ranks #3,777 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 John Bean Technologies Corporation hold?

John Bean Technologies Corporation holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 69 technology areas.

What is John Bean Technologies Corporation's Innovation Score?

John Bean Technologies Corporation has an Innovation Score of 58.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does John Bean Technologies Corporation focus on?

John Bean Technologies Corporation's top technology area is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish) with 34 patents, ranking #7 of 119 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 69 CPC subclasses total.

Is John Bean Technologies Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

John Bean Technologies Corporation's recent grant velocity is +24% 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 John Bean Technologies Corporation's patents?

John Bean Technologies Corporation's patents average 19.9 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 John Bean Technologies Corporation 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

John Bean Technologies Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 69 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: A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, John ranks #3,777 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 69 technology areas.

#3,777
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (58.2/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3777 · US Corporation #3,777 · 96 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,777/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hallmark Cards…
CPC-WIDE A22C · 69 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated (±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 John’s 58.2 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 15.8 pts (27%) Velocity 5.5 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 12.0 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ajou University… · near

58
Beijing University… · near

58
Inserm (INSTITUT… · near

58
John Bean · this assignee

58
Littelfuse · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows John's Innovation Score is 58.2/100 (top 5% 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 John?

Each dot is one of John’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). John’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How John's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, John Bean Technologies Corporation received 52 grants versus 42 in 2015–2019 (+24% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 15 grants and bottomed in 2016 at 2. Lead class A22C accounts for 35.4% of the portfolio across 69 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd. (#3,773) and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation (#3,781).

John's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, John Bean Technologies Corporation moved from 34 to 28 grants (0.82x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Hanmi Pharm

96
Hellermanntyton

96
Hallmark Cards In…

96
J Morita MFG

96
Karma Automotive

96
Knoll

96
Lite-on Opto Tech…

96
Mitsubishi Tanabe…

96
John Bean ◀

96

What this shows John holds 96 patents at rank #3,777, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near John

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,777 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A22C (Processing Meat)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for John, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A22C (Processing Meat), John ranks #7 of 119 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Beijing University OF Posts AND Telecommunications 58 Ajou University Industry-academic Cooperation 58 Littelfuse, Inc. 58 Inserm (INSTITUT National DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA Recherche MÉDICALE) 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Construction Research & Technology GMBH 19.9 avg Steelseries ApS 19.9 avg FotoNation Limited 19.9 avg Neste OYJ 19.9 avg

John's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 5% higher than 95% 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.

View data table

John Bean Technologies Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.3%
2016	2	2.1%
2017	12	12.5%
2018	12	12.5%
2019	10	10.4%
2020	15	15.6%
2021	9	9.4%
2022	9	9.4%
2023	6	6.3%
2024	13	13.5%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does John Bean Technologies Corporation patent most?

A22C - Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish 34

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 28

B26F - PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; Severing BY Means Other Than Cutting 24

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 16

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 15

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 13

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 11

A23N - Machines OR Apparatus FOR Treating Harvested Fruit, Vegetables OR Flower Bulbs IN Bulk, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Peeling Vegetables OR Fruit IN BULK; Apparatus FOR Preparing Animal Feeding- Stuffs 9

A22B - Slaughtering 6

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 6

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

A46B - Brushes 5

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 5

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 5

Top 15 of 69 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

John Bean Technologies Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

John Bean Technologies Corporation's lead technology class is A22C (Processing Meat, Poultry, OR Fish), 35.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A22C
Ranked #3,777 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare John Bean Technologies Corporation against Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.2/100 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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