Where does Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. ranks #13,356 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 Technology B.V. hold?

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. has an Innovation Score of 35.8 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Technology B.V.'s patents?

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s patents average 16.6 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 Oronite Technology B.V. 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 Oronite Technology B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. focus on?

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 22 patents, ranking #23 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 10 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 #13,356 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 10 technology areas.

#13,356
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.8/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13356 · Foreign Corporation #13,356 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,356/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Celloptic
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Celloptic, 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 35.8 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 10.8 pts (30%) Velocity 3.8 pts (11%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Chevron's Innovation Score is 35.8/100 (top 48% 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 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 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 Technology B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 100% 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 2019 (5 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2018. By volume, Chevron sits between Celloptic, Inc. and Cqlt Saargummi Technologies S.À.R.L..

Chevron's three-year grant acceleration

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

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What this shows Chevron holds 22 patents at rank #13,350, 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 #13,350 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)

36 Top 48% higher than 52% 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 Technology B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	18.2%
2016	4	18.2%
2018	2	9.1%
2019	5	22.7%
2020	2	9.1%
2022	2	9.1%
2023	2	9.1%
2025partial year	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 22

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 22

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

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 1

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

Top 10 of 10 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 Technology B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Chevron Oronite Technology B.V.'s lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #13,356 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Chevron Oronite Technology B.V. against Celloptic, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.8/100 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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