Company Analysis

Otis Worldwide Corporation (OTIS)

NYSE: OTIS · Electronic & Other Electrical Equipment (No Computer Equip) · Farmington, CT · filing with the SEC since 2019
Grade5.7
◀ Past 7.5● Present 5.7▶ Future 3.7

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 published
Otis Elevator Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1,716 published
NIPPON OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
5 granted
1 published
Nippon Otis Elevator Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in JP
0 granted
2 published
OTIS 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
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
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.

SI Assistanton OTIS · research, not advice