Where does ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. ranks #318 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 ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. hold?

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. holds 1,350 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 120 technology areas.

What is ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s Innovation Score?

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. has an Innovation Score of 65.4 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 ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -26% 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 ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s patents?

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s patents average 19.5 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 ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. 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

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Q: What technology areas does ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. focus on?

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 526 patents, ranking #3 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 120 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 1,350 granted patents across 120 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Exxonmobil ranks #318 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 1,350 patents across 120 technology areas.

#318
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (65.4/100): 19.5
avg claims per patent: -26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R318 · US Corporation #318 · 1,350 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 1.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #318/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Acer Incorporated
CPC-WIDE C08F · 120 areas
INNOV-STRONG 65.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Acer Incorporated (±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 Exxonmobil’s 65.4 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 24.9 pts (38%) Velocity 3.8 pts (6%) Breadth 25.0 pts (38%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Columbia Insurance · near

65
Donaldson · near

65
ExxonMobil Chemical… · this assignee

65
Fresenius Medical… · near

65
i4F Licensing · near

65
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Exxonmobil's Innovation Score is 65.4/100 (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 Exxonmobil?

Each dot is one of Exxonmobil’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). Exxonmobil’s own 19.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Exxonmobil's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. received 564 grants versus 764 in 2015–2019 (-26% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 208 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 50. Lead class C08F accounts for 39% of the portfolio across 120 subclasses. Volume neighbours: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (#314) and Kubota Corporation (#322).

Exxonmobil's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. moved from 439 to 251 grants (0.57x 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 #2,518. See the growth leaderboard.

University of Flo…

1,362
Qorvo US

1,359
Delta Faucet

1,351
Acer Incorporated

1,350
Exxonmobil Chemic… ◀

1,350
Beijing Bytedance…

1,348
Sanofi-aventis De…

1,348
Harman Internatio…

1,341
Kubota

1,340

What this shows ExxonMobil holds 1,350 patents at rank #318, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near ExxonMobil

By rank, the assignees closest to #318 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for ExxonMobil, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…), ExxonMobil ranks #3 of 1,231 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (65 here).

Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. 65 i4F Licensing NV 65 Donaldson Company, Inc. 65 Columbia Insurance Company 65

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.5 here).

Renishaw PLC 19.5 avg Cummins Power Generation Inc. 19.5 avg Altec Industries, Inc. 19.5 avg Dirtt Environmental Solutions Ltd. 19.5 avg

Exxonmobil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

65 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 · 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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ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	144	10.7%
2016	208	15.4%
2017	140	10.4%
2018	146	10.8%
2019	126	9.3%
2020	159	11.8%
2021	154	11.4%
2022	111	8.2%
2023	90	6.7%
2024	50	3.7%
2025partial year	22	1.6%

Which technologies does ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 526

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 507

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 403

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 311

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 227

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 207

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 160

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 118

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 90

B01D - Separation 89

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 72

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 68

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 62

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 53

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 53

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

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.'s lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 39% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #318 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. against University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 65.4/100 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

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