CORK, Ireland, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson
Controls (NYSE: JCI), the global leader for smart, healthy and
sustainable buildings, today was named a Clarivate Top 100
Global Innovator™ 2021 for the sixth straight year. The tenth
edition of the annual report from Clarivate Plc, a global leader in
providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace
of innovation, identifies companies at the pinnacle of the global
innovation landscape by measuring the ideation culture that
produces patents.
Over the past five years, Johnson Controls has invested close to
$3 billion in engineering, research
and development and has grown its patent application filing more
than threefold.
"Innovation is at the heart of our mission to transform the
spaces where people live, work and play," said George Oliver, chairman and CEO of Johnson
Controls. "We are honored that our team was recognized once again
for its dedication to developing new technologies, products and
services that help deliver on our mission for healthy people,
healthy places and a healthy planet."
Key recent developments at Johnson Controls are the launch of
OpenBlue, a complete suite of connected solutions and services,
that leverages digital integration to optimize the performance of
buildings and assets. The company is also increasing investment in
its product portfolio and leveraging new digital connectivity to
provide healthy buildings solutions for customers.
"Our engineering, research and development teams are
reinvigorating our core product portfolio, ensuring new
technologies are connected and future-ready, while empowering
customers and communities to streamline building operations and
deliver energy efficiencies that will help them meet their
environmental goals," said Oliver.
Johnson Controls has methodically grown its patent portfolio,
reflecting R&D investments in OpenBlue and other digital
offerings, air quality (including the OpenBlue CleanAir offering),
energy optimization, and sustainability of its services, systems
and equipment.
With its global reach, Johnson Controls is uniquely positioned
to leverage its deep and diverse services experience during product
R&D. For example, insights from Johnson Controls global
services organization's history of integrating devices in a
building allows Johnson Controls to innovate around building
digital connectivity, contextualization of building data, machine
learning models, and artificial intelligence into Johnson Controls
products.
"Johnson Controls is particularly pleased to receive this award
from Clarivate for the sixth year in a row," said Karl Reichenberger, Johnson Controls vice
president of Intellectual Property. "Clarivate carefully develops
its Top 100 list based not only on quantity of patents, but also on
qualitative patent metrics such as influence, success, and
globalization of a company's innovative intellectual property and
by those important measures Johnson Controls clearly outperforms in
our industry," said Reichenberger.
Jeff Roy, president, IP Group,
Clarivate, said, "At Clarivate, we believe that human ingenuity can
change the world for the better and improve our future. While
innovation takes aim at the future, the drivers and dynamics
shaping it are more constant. We congratulate this year's Top 100
companies who have consistently raised the bar of innovation
excellence."
The Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2021 come from three
continents and 14 countries/regions. The report and a full list of
Top 100 organizations can be found here.
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About Johnson Controls:
At Johnson Controls, we transform the environments where people
live, work, learn and play. From optimizing building performance to
improving safety and enhancing comfort, we drive the outcomes that
matter most. We deliver our promise in industries such as
healthcare, education, data centers and manufacturing. With a
global team of 100,000 experts in more than 150 countries and over
130 years of innovation, we are the power behind our customers'
mission. Our leading portfolio of building technology and solutions
includes some of the most trusted names in the industry, such as
Tyco®, York®, Metasys®,
Ruskin®, Titus®, Frick®,
Penn®, Sabroe®, Simplex®,
Ansul® and Grinnell®. For more information,
visit www.johnsoncontrols.com or follow us @johnsoncontrols on
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