Where does Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA ranks #14,709 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 Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA hold?

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's Innovation Score?

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA has an Innovation Score of 33.6 out of 100 (45th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents?

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's patents average 14.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA

Q: What technology areas does Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA focus on?

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's top technology area is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy) with 19 patents, ranking #333 of 2,332 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA 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 PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #14,709 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 17 technology areas.

#14,709
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 45th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.6/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14709 · Foreign Corporation #14,709 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,709/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Janssen BioPharma
CPC-FOCUS H01M · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Janssen BioPharma, Inc. (±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 Johnson’s 33.6 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 10.5 pts (31%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 14.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Johnson Controls… · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 33.6/100 (45th percentile 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 Johnson?

Each dot is one of Johnson’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). Johnson’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 18.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Johnson's grants concentrate

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 95% of grants classified under H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Johnson sits between Jmea Corporation and Keba AG.

Jmea

20
Jost-werke Deutsc…

20
JST Power Equipme…

20
Janssen Biopharma

20
Jubilant Draximage

20
Just Fur Love

20
Kajeet

20
Keba

20
Johnson Controls… ◀

20

What this shows Johnson holds 20 patents at rank #14,708, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Johnson

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,708 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H01M (Processes OR Means)

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

Johnson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 45th percentile higher than 45% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	20.0%
2016	4	20.0%
2017	5	25.0%
2018	2	10.0%
2019	5	25.0%

Which technologies does Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA patent most?

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 19

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

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 1

B23P - Metal-working NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Combined OPERATIONS; Universal Machine Tools 1

B09B - Disposal OF Solid Waste NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 1

B07C - Postal SORTING; Sorting Individual Articles, OR Bulk Material FIT TO BE Sorted Piece-meal, e.g. BY Picking 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 1

B22D - Casting OF METALS; Casting OF Other Substances BY THE Same Processes OR Devices 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA's lead technology class is H01M (Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy), 95% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H01M
Ranked #14,709 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson Controls Autobatterie GmbH & Co. KGaA against Jmea Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.6/100 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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