Where does Johns Manville rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johns Manville ranks #1,109 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 Johns Manville hold?

Johns Manville holds 383 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 103 technology areas.

What is Johns Manville's Innovation Score?

Johns Manville has an Innovation Score of 60.3 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Johns Manville focus on?

Johns Manville's top technology area is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification) with 100 patents, ranking #92 of 9,657 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 103 CPC subclasses total.

Is Johns Manville's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johns Manville's recent grant velocity is -19% 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 Johns Manville's patents?

Johns Manville's patents average 17.7 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 Johns Manville 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

Johns Manville

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 383 granted patents across 103 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: Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johns ranks #1,109 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 383 patents across 103 technology areas.

#1,109
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.3/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -19%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1109 · US Corporation #1,109 · 383 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 383 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,109/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Kobelco Construction…
CPC-WIDE Y10T · 103 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -19% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd (±1 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 Johns’s 60.3 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 20.6 pts (34%) Velocity 4.1 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mftb Holdco · near

60
Ubtech Robotics · near

60
Johns Manville · this assignee

60
Fuji Xerox · near

60
Westinghouse Electric · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johns's Innovation Score is 60.3/100 (top 3% 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 Johns?

Each dot is one of Johns’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). Johns’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Johns's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Johns Manville received 162 grants versus 201 in 2015–2019 (-19% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 49 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 21. Lead class Y10T accounts for 26.1% of the portfolio across 103 subclasses. Volume neighbours: PPC Broadband, Inc. (#1,105) and Aesculap AG (#1,113).

Johns's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Johns Manville moved from 129 to 80 grants (0.62x 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 #2,392. See the growth leaderboard.

PPC Broadband

386
JNC

385
Kobelco Construct…

384
Power Integrations

384
Johns Manville ◀

383
Linde

382
National Oilwell…

382
TE Connectivity S…

381
Aesculap

380

What this shows Johns holds 383 patents at rank #1,109, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Johns

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,109 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Johns, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), Johns ranks #92 of 9,657 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Ubtech Robotics Corp Ltd 60 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 60 Mftb Holdco, Inc. 60 Westinghouse Electric Company LLC 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Abb Vie Inc. 17.7 avg Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. 17.7 avg The Research Foundation for The State University of New York 17.7 avg Zephyros, Inc. 17.7 avg

Johns's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Johns Manville patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	7.0%
2016	31	8.1%
2017	49	12.8%
2018	47	12.3%
2019	47	12.3%
2020	43	11.2%
2021	39	10.2%
2022	27	7.0%
2023	32	8.4%
2024	21	5.5%
2025partial year	20	5.2%

Which technologies does Johns Manville patent most?

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 100

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 93

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 81

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 77

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 75

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 70

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 69

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 69

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 66

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 52

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 52

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 51

E04D - Roof COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; Roof-working Tools 51

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 51

E04B - General Building CONSTRUCTIONS; Walls, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; Insulation OR Other Protection OF Buildings 45

Top 15 of 103 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

Johns Manville's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johns Manville's lead technology class is Y10T (Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification), 26.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore Y10T
Ranked #1,109 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johns Manville against PPC Broadband, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.3/100 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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