Where does Fort Hills Energy L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fort Hills Energy L.P. ranks #14,622 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 Fort Hills Energy L.P. hold?

Fort Hills Energy L.P. holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Fort Hills Energy L.P. has an Innovation Score of 39.1 out of 100 (top 39% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s recent grant velocity is -57% 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 Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s patents?

Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s patents average 36.5 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 Fort Hills Energy L.P. 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

Fort Hills Energy L.P.

Q: What technology areas does Fort Hills Energy L.P. focus on?

Fort Hills Energy L.P.'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 20 patents, ranking #66 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Fort ranks #14,622 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 11 technology areas.

#14,622
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 39%
by Innovation Score (39.1/100): 36.5
avg claims per patent: -57%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14622 · Foreign Corporation #14,622 · 20 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,622/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Feniex Industries
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.1/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 36.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -57% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Feniex Industries (±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 Fort’s 39.1 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 10.5 pts (27%) Velocity 1.9 pts (5%) Breadth 11.7 pts (30%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (38%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fort Hills Energy · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fort's Innovation Score is 39.1/100 (top 39% 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 Fort?

Each dot is one of Fort’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). Fort’s own 36.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 4.8 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Fort's grants concentrate

Fort Hills Energy L.P. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Fort sits between Ferrara Candy Company and Feniex Industries.

Fort's three-year grant acceleration

Fort Hills Energy L.P. shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Ferrara Candy

20
First RF

20
Fleece Performanc…

20
Focal Jmlab

20
Foursquare Labs

20
Fuji Kogyo

20
FXD

20
Feniex Industries

20
Fort Hills Energy ◀

20

What this shows Fort holds 20 patents at rank #14,614, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fort

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,614 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Fort's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 39% higher than 61% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fort Hills Energy L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2017	6	30.0%
2018	4	20.0%
2019	3	15.0%
2020	2	10.0%
2021	2	10.0%
2022	2	10.0%

Which technologies does Fort Hills Energy L.P. 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 20

B01D - Separation 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 2

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 1

B03B - Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids OR Using Pneumatic Tables OR Jigs 1

F24H - Fluid Heaters, e.g. Water OR AIR Heaters, Having Heat-generating Means, e.g. Heat Pumps, IN General 1

C10C - Working-up Pitch, Asphalt, Bitumen, TAR; Pyroligneous Acid 1

Top 11 of 11 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

Fort Hills Energy L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fort Hills Energy L.P.'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), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #14,622 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fort Hills Energy L.P. against Ferrara Candy Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.1/100 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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