Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
2,637 patents granted to the 5 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Otis Worldwide Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
2,637
2,533 utility, 97 design, 6 reissue, 1 statutory invention registration, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
86
Against 119 in 2024 and 148 in 2023
Applications published
2,003
85 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
5
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Handling525
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy29
Digital communication28
Other consumer goods26
Mechanical elements14
Computer technology13
Measurement11
Civil engineering4
Machine tools4
Other special machines4
Control3
Textile and paper machines2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2,631 granted
284 publishedOtis Elevator Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1,716 publishedNIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
5 granted
1 publishedNippon Otis Elevator Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP
0 granted
2 publishedOTIS GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H. a subsidiary
AT, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Names not counted (1)
Cypress Holdings Srl
Most of its patents print CA; this name counts in IT. 2 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,509,328 | Device and method for detecting elevator rope elongation and elevator | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,509,326 | Car operation panel, elevator system and display method of car operation panel | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,509,324 | Auto range process for elevator wireless node | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,509,323 | Automatically supporting social distancing for elevator call requests and identification of waiting passengers using deep learning and machine learning | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,503,339 | Cleaning device for traction belt of elevator and elevator system | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,503,338 | Hybrid compensation member | Other consumer goods | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,503,335 | Control for shuttle elevator groups | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,497,266 | Brake device for elevator system and a test method thereof | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,497,263 | Elevator calling coordination for robots and individuals | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,486,140 | Safety brake trigger | Handling | OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0382156 | ELEVATOR CAR AND ELEVATOR ASSEMBLY | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 2025/0379480 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM, PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR THEREFOR, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Otis Elevator Company |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 2025/0376355 | SAFETY DETECTION DEVICE AND ESCALATOR OR MOVING WALKWAY INCORPORATING THE DEVICE | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 2025/0376354 | ELEVATOR CAR CEILING SYSTEM, ELEVATOR CAR AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0369181 | ELEVATOR SUSPENSION MEMBER WITH PROTECTIVE MATERIAL | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0368475 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM WITH COMBINED LiDAR AND VISIBLE SENSOR GUIDE | Measurement | Otis Elevator Company |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0353705 | ELEVATOR CAR WITH RETRACTABLE APRON AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH AN ELEVATOR CAR | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0353704 | METHOD OF PROVIDING ACCESS TO AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT OF AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0346457 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND COUNTERWEIGHT THEREFOR | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0346456 | ELEVATOR SHEAVE LINER, ELEVATOR SHEAVE ASSEMBLY, AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM | Handling | Otis Elevator Company |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Handling 143 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 6 · Other consumer goods 3 · Mechanical elements 3 · Machine tools 2 · Other special machines 2.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.