Where does Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company ranks #1,243 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 Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company hold?

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company holds 341 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's Innovation Score?

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company has an Innovation Score of 75.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company.

What does claim depth mean for Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's patents?

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's patents average 18.0 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company

Q: What technology areas does Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company focus on?

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 89 patents, ranking #36 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering 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 PatentsView assignee record - 341 granted patents across 120 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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, Exxon ranks #1,243 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 341 patents across 120 technology areas.

#1,243
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (75.9/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1243 · US Corporation #1,243 · 341 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 341 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,243/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH 8x8
CPC-WIDE B01J · 120 areas
INNOV-STRONG 75.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: 8x8, 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 Exxon’s 75.9 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 20.2 pts (27%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Marvell Asia PTE · near

76
Amazon · near

76
Exxon Mobil… · this assignee

76
Geotab · near

76
Microsoft Technology… · near

76
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Exxon's Innovation Score is 75.9/100 (top 1% 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 Exxon?

Each dot is one of Exxon’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). Exxon’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 17.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Exxon's grant cadence moved

Grant history spans 2022–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 131 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 55. Lead class B01J accounts for 26.1% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cox Communications, Inc. (#1,239) and HP Indigo B.V. (#1,247).

Exxon's three-year grant acceleration

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company shows 298 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Cox Communications

342
Hartford Fire Ins…

342
8x8

341
Cargill Incorpora…

341
Exxon Mobil Techn… ◀

341
Parallel Wireless

340
Sonova

340
Wirtgen

340
HP Indigo B V

339

What this shows Exxon holds 341 patents at rank #1,243, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Exxon

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,243 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Exxon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Exxon ranks #36 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (76 here).

Amazon Technologies, Inc. 76 Geotab Inc. 76 Marvell Asia PTE Ltd 76 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 76

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.0 here).

Ii-vi Delaware, Inc. 18.0 avg The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 18.0 avg Artilux, Inc. 18.0 avg DoorDash, Inc. 18.0 avg

Exxon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

76 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	55	16.1%
2023	131	38.4%
2024	112	32.8%
2025partial year	43	12.6%

Which technologies does Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 89

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 87

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 60

B01D - Separation 59

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 53

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 42

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 41

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 37

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 36

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 36

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 31

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 30

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 20

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 20

Top 15 of 120 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

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company's lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 26.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #1,243 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering Company against Cox Communications, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 75.9/100 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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