Where does Chevron Lummus Global LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chevron Lummus Global LLC ranks #17,555 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 Lummus Global LLC hold?

Chevron Lummus Global LLC holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Chevron Lummus Global LLC's Innovation Score?

Chevron Lummus Global LLC has an Innovation Score of 49.4 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Chevron Lummus Global LLC focus on?

Chevron Lummus Global LLC's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 16 patents, ranking #295 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

Is Chevron Lummus Global LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chevron Lummus Global LLC's recent grant velocity is +175% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Chevron Lummus Global LLC's patents?

Chevron Lummus Global LLC's patents average 18.2 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 Chevron Lummus Global LLC 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

Chevron Lummus Global LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 6 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Chevron ranks #17,555 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 6 technology areas.

#17,555
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: +175%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17555 · US Corporation #17,555 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,555/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Centricity Vision
CPC-NARROW B01J · 6 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +175% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Centricity Vision, Inc. (±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 49.4 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 9.8 pts (20%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 8.7 pts (18%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chevron Lummus Global · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chevron's Innovation Score is 49.4/100 (top 15% 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 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.9 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 Lummus Global LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Chevron sits between Centricity Vision, Inc. and Chronicle LLC.

Chevron's three-year grant acceleration

Chevron Lummus Global LLC shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

Centricity Vision

16
Certinia

16
Chargedge

16
Chauvin Arnoux

16
Chia Network

16
Chinese Academy o…

16
Chopard Internati…

16
Chronicle

16
Chevron Lummus Gl… ◀

16

What this shows Chevron holds 16 patents at rank #17,569, 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 #17,569 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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)

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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 Lummus Global LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.3%
2018	3	18.8%
2021	2	12.5%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	5	31.3%
2024	2	12.5%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Chevron Lummus Global LLC patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 16

C10G - Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS; Production OF Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g. BY Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation ; Recovery OF Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, OR GASES; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting OF HYDROCARBONS; Reforming OF NAPHTHA; Mineral Waxes 16

C10L - Fuels NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Natural GAS; Synthetic Natural GAS Obtained BY Processes NOT Covered BY Subclasses C10g OR C10K; Liquified Petroleum GAS; USE OF Additives TO Fuels OR FIRES; Fire-lighters 12

B01D - Separation 12

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

Top 6 of 6 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

Chevron Lummus Global LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chevron Lummus Global LLC's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #17,555 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chevron Lummus Global LLC against Centricity Vision, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.4/100 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

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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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