Where does Chevron Japan Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chevron Japan Limited ranks #24,095 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 Chevron Japan Limited hold?

Chevron Japan Limited holds 11 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Chevron Japan Limited's Innovation Score?

Chevron Japan Limited has an Innovation Score of 27.5 out of 100 (24th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Chevron Japan Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chevron Japan Limited's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Chevron Japan Limited's patents?

Chevron Japan Limited's patents average 14.6 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 Chevron Japan Limited 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

Chevron Japan Limited

Q: What technology areas does Chevron Japan Limited focus on?

Chevron Japan Limited's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 10 patents, ranking #42 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 11 granted patents across 5 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chevron ranks #24,095 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 11 patents across 5 technology areas.

#24,095
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 24th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.5/100): 14.6
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R24095 · Foreign Corporation #24,095 · 11 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 11 grants
MID-PACK #24,095/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chemimage
CPC-NARROW C10M · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chemimage Technologies LLC (±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 Chevron’s 27.5 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 8.6 pts (31%) Velocity 2.2 pts (8%) Breadth 7.9 pts (29%) Claim depth 8.8 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chevron Japan · this assignee

27
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chevron's Innovation Score is 27.5/100 (24th percentile 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 Chevron?

Each dot is one of Chevron’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). Chevron’s own 14.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Chevron's grants concentrate

Chevron Japan Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 90.9% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Chevron sits between Chemimage Technologies LLC and CIW Enterprises, Inc..

Chevron's three-year grant acceleration

Chevron Japan Limited shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Chemimage

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11
Chemours-mitsui F…

11
Chery Automobile

11
China Academy OF…

11
Chuanheng Furnitu…

11
Cimcon Lighting

11
CIW Enterprises

11
Chevron Japan ◀

11

What this shows Chevron holds 11 patents at rank #24,066, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Chevron

By rank, the assignees closest to #24,066 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Chevron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

27 24th percentile higher than 24% 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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Chevron Japan Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	18.2%
2016	1	9.1%
2020	2	18.2%
2021	1	9.1%
2022	1	9.1%
2025partial year	4	36.4%

Which technologies does Chevron Japan Limited patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 10

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 10

F02M - Supplying Combustion Engines IN General With Combustible Mixtures OR Constituents Thereof 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Chevron Japan Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chevron Japan Limited's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 90.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #24,095 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chevron Japan Limited against Chemimage Technologies LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.5/100 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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