Where does Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company ranks #610 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 Research AND Engineering Company hold?

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company holds 724 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 142 technology areas.

What is Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's Innovation Score?

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company has an Innovation Score of 59.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's recent grant velocity is -54% 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 Research AND Engineering Company's patents?

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's patents average 18.2 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

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company

Q: What technology areas does Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company focus on?

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's top technology area is 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) with 334 patents, ranking #3 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 142 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Exxonmobil Research 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 - 724 granted patents across 142 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: 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 GAS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Exxonmobil ranks #610 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 724 patents across 142 technology areas.

#610
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.4/100): 18.2
avg claims per patent: -54%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R610 · US Corporation #610 · 724 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 724 grants
TOP-DECILE #610/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seoul Viosys
CPC-WIDE C10G · 142 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -54% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd. (±1 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 59.4 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 22.8 pts (38%) Velocity 0.7 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.9 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Nouryon Chemicals… · near

59
SMS group · near

59
Exxonmobil Research… · this assignee

59
Infinera · near

59
Office National… · near

59
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Exxonmobil's Innovation Score is 59.4/100 (top 4% 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 18.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 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 Research AND Engineering Company received 228 grants versus 495 in 2015–2019 (-54% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 112 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 3. Lead class C10G accounts for 46.1% of the portfolio across 142 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Michelin Recherche ET Technique S.A. (#606) and Hoya Corporation (#614).

Exxonmobil's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company moved from 307 to 33 grants (0.11x 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 #3,166. See the growth leaderboard.

Michelin Recherch…

729
SMC

728
TCL China Star Op…

728
ST Jude Medical C…

727
Exxonmobil Resear… ◀

724
Seoul Viosys

723
Sanofi

721
Council OF Scient…

720
Hoya

718

What this shows Exxonmobil holds 724 patents at rank #610, 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 #610 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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 C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Exxonmobil ranks #3 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (59 here).

Infinera Corp. 59 Office National D'etudes ET DE Recherches AÉROSPATIALES 59 SMS group GmbH 59 Nouryon Chemicals International B.V. 59

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.2 here).

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. 18.2 avg Keysight Technologies, Inc. 18.2 avg The General Hospital Corporation 18.2 avg Lam Research Corporation 18.2 avg

Exxonmobil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

59 Top 4% higher than 96% 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 Research AND Engineering Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	101	14.0%
2016	99	13.7%
2017	86	11.9%
2018	97	13.4%
2019	112	15.5%
2020	111	15.3%
2021	84	11.6%
2022	27	3.7%
2023	3	0.4%
2024	3	0.4%
2025partial year	1	0.1%

Which technologies does Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company patent most?

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 334

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 226

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 149

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 148

B01D - Separation 148

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 140

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 116

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 112

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 111

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 88

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 68

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 52

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 41

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 35

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 35

Top 15 of 142 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 Research AND Engineering Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company's lead technology class is 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 GAS), 46.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #610 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Exxonmobil Research AND Engineering Company against Michelin Recherche ET Technique S.A., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.4/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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