Where does Chevron Oronite Company LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chevron Oronite Company LLC ranks #4,000 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 Oronite Company LLC hold?

Chevron Oronite Company LLC holds 90 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Chevron Oronite Company LLC's Innovation Score?

Chevron Oronite Company LLC has an Innovation Score of 52.6 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Chevron Oronite Company LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chevron Oronite Company LLC's recent grant velocity is -47% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Chevron Oronite Company LLC's patents?

Chevron Oronite Company LLC's patents average 19.4 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 Oronite Company 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 Oronite Company LLC

Q: What technology areas does Chevron Oronite Company LLC focus on?

Chevron Oronite Company LLC's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 75 patents, ranking #6 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 90 granted patents across 23 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 #4,000 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 90 patents across 23 technology areas.

#4,000
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.6/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: -47%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4000 · US Corporation #4,000 · 90 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 90 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,000/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Arizona Board OF…
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -47% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arizona Board OF Regents, A Body Corporate OF THE State OF Arizona Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University (±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 52.6 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 15.6 pts (30%) Velocity 8.4 pts (16%) Breadth 17.0 pts (32%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (22%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Chevron Oronite · this assignee

53
Hexcel · near

53
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

53
SnapTrack · near

53
Southern Methodist… · near

53
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Chevron's Innovation Score is 52.6/100 (top 10% 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 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.0 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 Oronite Company LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 83.3% 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 2016 (20 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Chevron sits between Arizona Board OF Regents, A Body Corporate OF THE State OF Arizona Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University and Dicastal North America, Inc..

Chevron's three-year grant acceleration

Chevron Oronite Company LLC shows 19 grants in 2022–2024 against only 15 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.

Arizona Board OF…

90
Arktura

90
Bwxt mpower

90
Black Sesame

90
Cnpc USA

90
Camco Manufacturi…

90
Compass Therapeut…

90
Dicastal North Am…

90
Chevron Oronite ◀

90

What this shows Chevron holds 90 patents at rank #3,999, 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 #3,999 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Chevron, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10M (Lubricating Compositions), Chevron ranks #6 of 300 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (53 here).

Hexcel Corporation 53 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd. 53 Southern Methodist University 53 SnapTrack, Inc. 53

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Riverbed Technology LLC 19.4 avg Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc. 19.4 avg Comscore, Inc. 19.4 avg Relign Corporation 19.4 avg

Chevron's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

53 Top 10% higher than 90% 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 Oronite Company LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	21.1%
2016	20	22.2%
2017	6	6.7%
2018	5	5.6%
2019	5	5.6%
2020	8	8.9%
2021	2	2.2%
2022	5	5.6%
2023	6	6.7%
2024	8	8.9%
2025partial year	6	6.7%

Which technologies does Chevron Oronite Company LLC patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 75

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 71

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 15

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 11

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

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 9

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 7

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 3

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 3

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 3

F02B - Internal-combustion Piston ENGINES; Combustion Engines IN General 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

Top 15 of 23 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 Oronite Company LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chevron Oronite Company LLC's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 83.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #4,000 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chevron Oronite Company LLC against Arizona Board OF Regents, A Body Corporate OF THE State OF Arizona Acting FOR AND ON Behalf OF Arizona State University, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.6/100 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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