Where does Otis Elevator Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Otis Elevator Company ranks #325 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 Otis Elevator Company hold?

Otis Elevator Company holds 1,319 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 146 technology areas.

What is Otis Elevator Company's Innovation Score?

Otis Elevator Company has an Innovation Score of 64.4 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Otis Elevator Company focus on?

Otis Elevator Company's top technology area is B66B (ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways) with 1,225 patents, ranking #1 of 127 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 146 CPC subclasses total.

Is Otis Elevator Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Otis Elevator Company's recent grant velocity is +59% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Otis Elevator Company's patents?

Otis Elevator Company's patents average 15.2 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 Otis Elevator 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 US Corporation

Otis Elevator Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,319 granted patents across 146 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: B66B (ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Otis ranks #325 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,319 patents across 146 technology areas.

#325
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.4/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R325 · US Corporation #325 · 1,319 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.3K grants
TOP-DECILE #325/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Salesforce
CPC-WIDE B66B · 146 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Salesforce, Inc. (±1 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 Otis’s 64.4 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 24.8 pts (39%) Velocity 5.5 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Otis Elevator · this assignee

64
Siemens Healthineers… · near

64
BSH Hausgeräte · near

64
IP Holding · near

64
National Oilwell Varco · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Otis's Innovation Score is 64.4/100 (top 2% 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 Otis?

Each dot is one of Otis’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). Otis’s own 15.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Otis's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Otis Elevator Company received 774 grants versus 486 in 2015–2019 (+59% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 189 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 36. Lead class B66B accounts for 92.9% of the portfolio across 146 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Harman International Industries, Incorporated (#321) and Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha (#329).

Otis's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Otis Elevator Company moved from 528 to 435 grants (0.82x 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 #1,748. See the growth leaderboard.

Harman Internatio…

1,341
Kubota

1,340
Cook Medical

1,327
Avago General IP…

1,321
Otis Elevator ◀

1,319
Salesforce

1,318
Aristocrat Austra…

1,316
Black & Decker

1,312
Yamaha Hatsudoki

1,310

What this shows Otis holds 1,319 patents at rank #325, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Otis

By rank, the assignees closest to #325 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B66B (Elevators)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Otis, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B66B (Elevators), Otis ranks #1 of 127 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Siemens Healthineers International AG 64 BSH Hausgeräte GmbH 64 National Oilwell Varco, L.P. 64 IP Holding Company LLC 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Volvo Truck Corporation 15.2 avg Symbol Technologies, LLC 15.2 avg Cytec Industries, Inc. 15.2 avg Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd. 15.2 avg

Otis's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

View data table

Otis Elevator Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	36	2.7%
2016	52	3.9%
2017	74	5.6%
2018	135	10.2%
2019	189	14.3%
2020	169	12.8%
2021	170	12.9%
2022	168	12.7%
2023	149	11.3%
2024	118	8.9%
2025partial year	59	4.5%

Which technologies does Otis Elevator Company patent most?

B66B - ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways 1,225

D07B - Ropes OR Cables IN General 82

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 79

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 49

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 47

H02K - Dynamo-electric Machines 38

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 33

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 32

H02P - Control OR Regulation OF Electric Motors, Electric Generators OR Dynamo-electric CONVERTERS; Controlling Transformers, Reactors OR Choke Coils 31

F16H - Gearing 30

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 27

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 27

B66D - CAPSTANS; WINCHES; Tackles, e.g. Pulley BLOCKS; Hoists 26

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 23

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 22

Top 15 of 146 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

Otis Elevator Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Otis Elevator Company's lead technology class is B66B (ELEVATORS; Escalators OR Moving Walkways), 92.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B66B
Ranked #325 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Otis Elevator Company against Harman International Industries, Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.4/100 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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