Where does Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP ranks #6,039 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 Fire Protection LP hold?

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP holds 56 US utility patents granted between 2019 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's Innovation Score?

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP focus on?

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's top technology area is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems) with 40 patents, ranking #43 of 2,091 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

Is Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's recent grant velocity is +1175% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's patents?

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's patents average 17.5 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 Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP 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

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 56 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2019–2025. 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: G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #6,039 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 56 patents across 28 technology areas.

#6,039
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +1175%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6039 · US Corporation #6,039 · 56 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 56 grants
UPPER-Q #6,039/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Insyde Software
CPC-FOCUS G08B · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +1175% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Insyde Software Corp. (±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 45.9 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 14.0 pts (31%) Velocity 2.7 pts (6%) Breadth 18.7 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Carlisle Interconnect · near

46
Johnson Controls… · this assignee

46
Mochida Pharmaceutical · near

46
Mycronic AB · near

46
Yealink (XIAMEN)… · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Johnson's grants concentrate

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (19 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Johnson sits between Intersurgical AG and Knauf Insulation Sprl.

Johnson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP moved from 39 to 16 grants (0.41x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Intersurgical

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Invisage

56
Insyde Software

56
Jcbd

56
Kba-notasys

56
Korea Institute O…

56
KX

56
Knauf Insulation…

56
Johnson Controls… ◀

56

What this shows Johnson holds 56 patents at rank #6,039, 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 #6,039 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Johnson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G08B (Signalling OR Calling Systems), Johnson ranks #43 of 2,091 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Mycronic AB 46 Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc. 46 Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 46 Yealink (XIAMEN) Network Technology Co., Ltd. 46

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

R.P. Scherer Technologies, LLC 17.5 avg Magna Exteriors Inc. 17.5 avg Colorado State University Research Foundation 17.5 avg Harman Becker Automotive Systems GMBH 17.5 avg

Johnson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2019–2025

Grants by year

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

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Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2019	4	7.1%
2020	16	28.6%
2021	19	33.9%
2022	6	10.7%
2023	9	16.1%
2024	1	1.8%
2025partial year	1	1.8%

Which technologies does Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP patent most?

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 40

H04B - Transmission 16

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 6

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 5

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 4

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 4

G08C - Transmission Systems FOR Measured Values, Control OR Similar Signals 3

H02H - Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements 2

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 2

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 2

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP's lead technology class is G08B (Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G08B
Ranked #6,039 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP against Intersurgical AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.