Where does Johnson Controls, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson Controls, Inc. ranks #4,087 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, Inc. hold?

Johnson Controls, Inc. holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Johnson Controls, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Johnson Controls, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 46.7 out of 100 (top 20% 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, Inc. focus on?

Johnson Controls, Inc.'s top technology area is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 68 patents, ranking #25 of 645 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

Is Johnson Controls, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johnson Controls, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -95% 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, Inc.'s patents?

Johnson Controls, Inc.'s patents average 11.6 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, Inc. 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, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #4,087 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 42 technology areas.

#4,087
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 20%
by Innovation Score (46.7/100): 11.6
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4087 · US Corporation #4,087 · 88 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,087/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Georgia-Pacific…
CPC-WIDE B60N · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC (±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 46.7 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 15.5 pts (33%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 22.9 pts (49%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
FireEye · near

47
HSG · near

47
Japan Cash Machine · near

47
Johnson Controls · this assignee

47
Molecular Rebar Design · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 46.7/100 (top 20% 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 11.6 claims/patent is at or below the 17.0 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, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 77.3% of grants classified under B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (24 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Johnson sits between Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC and Liko Research & Development AB.

Johnson's three-year grant acceleration

Johnson Controls, Inc. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Georgia-pacific C…

88
Hollingsworth & V…

88
Institut National…

88
Ideastream Consum…

88
Joy Global Surfac…

88
Kenall Manufactur…

88
Kapsch Trafficcom

88
Liko Research & D…

88
Johnson Controls ◀

88

What this shows Johnson holds 88 patents at rank #4,087, 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 #4,087 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles)

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 B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR Vehicles), Johnson ranks #25 of 645 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Japan Cash Machine Co., Ltd. 47 FireEye, Inc. 47 Molecular Rebar Design, LLC 47 HSG, LLC 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.6 here).

Freni Brembo S.P.A. 11.6 avg Xencor, Inc. 11.6 avg Exelixis, Inc. 11.6 avg Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc. 11.6 avg

Johnson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

47 Top 20% higher than 80% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

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, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	22.7%
2016	24	27.3%
2017	18	20.5%
2018	14	15.9%
2019	8	9.1%
2020	2	2.3%
2022	1	1.1%
2024	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Johnson Controls, Inc. patent most?

B60N - Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 68

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 15

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 9

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 6

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 5

B60R - Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, OR Vehicle Parts, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

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 4

A47C - CHAIRS; SOFAS; Beds 3

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 3

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 2

Top 15 of 42 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, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson Controls, Inc.'s lead technology class is B60N (Seats Specially Adapted FOR VEHICLES; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 77.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B60N
Ranked #4,087 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson Controls, Inc. against Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.7/100 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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