Where does Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. ranks #840 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 & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. hold?

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. holds 543 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 87 technology areas.

What is Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 60.6 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%).

Is Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -61% 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 & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s patents?

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s patents average 17.6 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 & Johnson Vision Care, 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 & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. focus on?

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s top technology area is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses) with 360 patents, ranking #2 of 397 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 87 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 543 granted patents across 87 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: G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #840 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 543 patents across 87 technology areas.

#840
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.6/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -61%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R840 · US Corporation #840 · 543 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 543 grants
TOP-DECILE #840/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Aisin
CPC-WIDE G02C · 87 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -61% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Aisin Corporation (±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 60.6 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 21.8 pts (36%) Velocity 3.3 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Great Wall Motor · near

61
Thor Tech · near

61
Johnson & Johnson… · this assignee

61
Peking University · near

61
Total Marketing… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 60.6/100 (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 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 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 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.

How Johnson's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. received 149 grants versus 379 in 2015–2019 (-61% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 86 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 20. Lead class G02C accounts for 66.3% of the portfolio across 87 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (#836) and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (#844).

Johnson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. moved from 145 to 72 grants (0.50x 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 #2,704. See the growth leaderboard.

Max-planck-gesell…

544
Aisin

543
Delta (Shanghai)

543
Digimarc

543
Xiamen Tianma Mic…

543
Johnson & Johnson… ◀

543
Autoliv Developme…

542
Funai Electric

541
Siemens Healthcar…

541

What this shows Johnson holds 543 patents at rank #840, 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 #840 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02C (Spectacles)

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 G02C (Spectacles), Johnson ranks #2 of 397 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Peking University 61 Total Marketing Services 61 Great Wall Motor Company Limited 61 Thor Tech, Inc. 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.6 here).

Trustees of Tufts College 17.6 avg American Megatrends International, LLC 17.6 avg Polygroup Macau Limited (BVI) 17.6 avg PureWick Corporation 17.6 avg

Johnson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 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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Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	74	13.6%
2016	86	15.8%
2017	84	15.5%
2018	67	12.3%
2019	68	12.5%
2020	40	7.4%
2021	37	6.8%
2022	20	3.7%
2023	27	5.0%
2024	25	4.6%
2025partial year	15	2.8%

Which technologies does Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. patent most?

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 360

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 163

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 154

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 108

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 66

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 57

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 57

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 47

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 33

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 31

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 31

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 30

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 30

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 27

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 25

Top 15 of 87 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 & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.'s lead technology class is G02C (SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses), 66.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G02C
Ranked #840 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. against Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.6/100 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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