Where does ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership ranks #45,842 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 Surmont Partnership hold?

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership's Innovation Score?

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership has an Innovation Score of 22.1 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership's patents?

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership's patents average 13.4 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 ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership 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

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership

Q: What technology areas does ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership focus on?

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership'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 5 patents. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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 #45,842 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 5 technology areas.

#45,842
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.1/100): 13.4
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R45842 · Foreign Corporation #45,842 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #45,842/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Conex IPR
CPC-NARROW E21B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Conex IPR Limited (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Graff Faucets · near

22
Mikron Industries · near

22
ConocoPhillips… · this assignee

22
Canon Marketing Japan · near

22
Guangzhou Faner… · near

22
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Conocophillips's Innovation Score is 22.1/100 (10th 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.

Where Conocophillips's grants concentrate

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells). By volume, Conocophillips sits between Conex IPR Limited and Container Corporation of Canada.

Conex IPR

5
Conflu3nce

5
Conio

5
Connecticut Shotg…

5
Consorzio Naziona…

5
Constellation Sof…

5
Consumerlnfo com

5
Container of Cana…

5
Conocophillips Su… ◀

5

What this shows ConocoPhillips holds 5 patents at rank #45,934, 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 #45,934 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).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (22 here).

Mikron Industries, Inc. 22 Canon Marketing Japan Kabushiki Kaisha 22 Guangzhou Faner Aroma Product Co., Ltd. 22 Graff Faucets 22

Conocophillips's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

22 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

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 Surmont Partnership patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	20.0%
2017	1	20.0%
2018	1	20.0%
2019	1	20.0%
2020	1	20.0%

Which technologies does ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 5

F23G - Cremation FURNACES; Consuming Waste Products BY Combustion 1

F23C - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Combustion Using Fluid Fuel OR Solid Fuel Suspended IN ; A Carrier GAS OR; AIR 1

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 1

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 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#45,842

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

22.1 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

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

ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #45,842 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ConocoPhillips Surmont Partnership against Conex IPR Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.1/100 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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