Where does ConocoPhillips Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ConocoPhillips Company ranks #927 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 ConocoPhillips Company hold?

ConocoPhillips Company holds 481 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 98 technology areas.

What is ConocoPhillips Company's Innovation Score?

ConocoPhillips Company has an Innovation Score of 60.8 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ConocoPhillips Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ConocoPhillips Company's recent grant velocity is +21% 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 ConocoPhillips Company's patents?

ConocoPhillips Company's patents average 14.8 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 ConocoPhillips Company 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

ConocoPhillips Company

Q: What technology areas does ConocoPhillips Company focus on?

ConocoPhillips Company's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 299 patents, ranking #12 of 1,363 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 98 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 481 granted patents across 98 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Conocophillips ranks #927 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 481 patents across 98 technology areas.

#927
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (60.8/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: +21%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R927 · US Corporation #927 · 481 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 481 grants
TOP-DECILE #927/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Corning Research &…
CPC-WIDE E21B · 98 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +21% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Corning Research & Development Corporation (±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 Conocophillips’s 60.8 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 21.3 pts (35%) Velocity 5.6 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (41%) Claim depth 8.9 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ConocoPhillips · this assignee

61
General Electric… · near

61
Hexagon Technology… · near

61
The Government of… · near

61
University of Surrey · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Conocophillips's Innovation Score is 60.8/100 (top 3% 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 Conocophillips?

Each dot is one of Conocophillips’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). Conocophillips’s own 14.8 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Conocophillips's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ConocoPhillips Company received 246 grants versus 204 in 2015–2019 (+21% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2020 at 64 grants and bottomed in 2018 at 27. Lead class E21B accounts for 62.2% of the portfolio across 98 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Toyota Motor North America, Inc. (#924) and United States Postal Service (#932).

Conocophillips's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ConocoPhillips Company moved from 168 to 141 grants (0.84x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,689. See the growth leaderboard.

Toyota Motor Nort…

483
Sika Technology

482
The Swatch Group…

482
Corning Research…

481
Conocophillips ◀

481
Schweitzer Engine…

480
The Penn State Re…

480
Aristocrat

478
United States Pos…

477

What this shows ConocoPhillips holds 481 patents at rank #928, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ConocoPhillips

By rank, the assignees closest to #928 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ConocoPhillips, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling), ConocoPhillips ranks #12 of 1,363 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy 61 Hexagon Technology Center GMBH 61 General Electric Company Polska SP. Z O.O. 61 University of Surrey 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.8 here).

Lumus Ltd. 14.8 avg Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd. 14.8 avg ZF Active Safety GmbH 14.8 avg Magna Powertrain GmbH & Co KG 14.8 avg

Conocophillips's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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ConocoPhillips Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	45	9.4%
2016	38	7.9%
2017	31	6.4%
2018	27	5.6%
2019	63	13.1%
2020	64	13.3%
2021	41	8.5%
2022	46	9.6%
2023	34	7.1%
2024	61	12.7%
2025partial year	31	6.4%

Which technologies does ConocoPhillips Company patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 299

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 128

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 71

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 32

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 29

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 26

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 22

B01D - Separation 22

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 16

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 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 10

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 8

G01K - Measuring TEMPERATURE; Measuring Quantity OF HEAT; Thermally-sensitive Elements NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

G01H - Measurement OF Mechanical Vibrations OR Ultrasonic, Sonic OR Infrasonic Waves 8

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 8

Top 15 of 98 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

ConocoPhillips Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ConocoPhillips Company's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #927 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ConocoPhillips Company against Toyota Motor North America, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.8/100 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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