Where does Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH ranks #13,511 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 Light Commercial IP GmbH hold?

Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2025 and 2025, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's Innovation Score?

Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH has an Innovation Score of 34.3 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH.

What does claim depth mean for Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's patents?

Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's patents average 17.8 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 Light Commercial IP GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH focus on?

Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's top technology area is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening) with 18 patents, ranking #60 of 885 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH 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 - 22 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2025–2025. 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: F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #13,511 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 13 technology areas.

#13,511
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.3/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13511 · Foreign Corporation #13,511 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,511/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Japan Display West
CPC-FOCUS F24F · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2025–2025 · 1y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Japan Display West 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 34.3 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 10.8 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 12.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 34.3/100 (47th 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 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.7 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 Light Commercial IP GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 81.8% of grants classified under F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening). By volume, Johnson sits between Jinko Solar (HAINING) Co., Ltd. and Kiefel GMBH.

Jinko Solar (Hain…

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Japan Display West

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Jewelex New York

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KCC

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Kiefel

22
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What this shows Johnson holds 22 patents at rank #13,509, 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 #13,509 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F24F (Air-conditioning)

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 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2025–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2025partial year	22	100.0%

Which technologies does Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH patent most?

F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening 18

F25B - Refrigeration Machines, Plants OR SYSTEMS; Combined Heating AND Refrigeration SYSTEMS; Heat Pump Systems 5

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 4

B01D - Separation 2

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 2

F28F - Details OF Heat-exchange AND Heat-transfer Apparatus, OF General Application 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

F23N - Regulating OR Controlling Combustion 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F23D - Burners 1

F24D - Domestic- OR Space-heating Systems, e.g. Central Heating SYSTEMS; Domestic Hot-water Supply SYSTEMS; Elements OR Components Therefor 1

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 1

Top 13 of 13 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 Light Commercial IP GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH's lead technology class is F24F (AIR-CONDITIONING; AIR-HUMIDIFICATION; VENTILATION; USE OF AIR Currents FOR Screening), 81.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F24F
Ranked #13,511 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson Controls Light Commercial IP GmbH against Jinko Solar (HAINING) Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.3/100 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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