Where does Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company ranks #860 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 Matthey Public Limited Company hold?

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company holds 526 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 118 technology areas.

What is Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's Innovation Score?

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's recent grant velocity is -26% 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 Matthey Public Limited Company's patents?

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's patents average 16.7 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 Matthey Public Limited Company 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 Foreign Corporation

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company

Q: What technology areas does Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company focus on?

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 346 patents, ranking #9 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 118 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 526 granted patents across 118 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Johnson ranks #860 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 526 patents across 118 technology areas.

#860
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R860 · Foreign Corporation #860 · 526 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 526 grants
TOP-DECILE #860/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arthrex
CPC-WIDE B01J · 118 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arthrex, 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 59.7 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 21.6 pts (36%) Velocity 3.0 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Pirelli Tyre S P A · near

60
Gpcp IP Holdings · near

60
Johnson Matthey Public · this assignee

60
Nielsen Consumer · near

60
Continental Teves &… · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Johnson's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 16.7 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.

How Johnson's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company received 212 grants versus 286 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 80 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 27. Lead class B01J accounts for 65.8% of the portfolio across 118 subclasses. Volume neighbours: NuFlare Technology, Inc. (#856) and Transportation IP Holdings, LLC (#864).

Johnson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company moved from 201 to 91 grants (0.45x 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 #2,788. See the growth leaderboard.

Nuflare Technology

533
Micro Focus

532
Waters

531
Arthrex

526
Lyft

526
Xiaomi

526
Johnson Matthey P… ◀

526
Echostar L L C

525
Transportation IP…

524

What this shows Johnson holds 526 patents at rank #860, 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 #860 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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 B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Johnson ranks #9 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 60 Nielsen Consumer LLC 60 Pirelli Tyre S.P.A. 60 Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University 16.7 avg Solar Turbines Incorporated 16.7 avg Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. 16.7 avg Inalfa Roof Systems Group B.V. 16.7 avg

Johnson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 Matthey Public Limited Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	45	8.6%
2016	43	8.2%
2017	59	11.2%
2018	59	11.2%
2019	80	15.2%
2020	77	14.6%
2021	44	8.4%
2022	37	7.0%
2023	27	5.1%
2024	27	5.1%
2025partial year	28	5.3%

Which technologies does Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 346

B01D - Separation 312

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 237

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 212

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 125

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 88

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 46

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 44

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 37

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 36

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 36

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 33

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 32

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 22

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 19

Top 15 of 118 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 Matthey Public Limited Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 65.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #860 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company against NuFlare Technology, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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