Where does Inpex Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Inpex Corporation ranks #7,715 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 Inpex Corporation hold?

Inpex Corporation holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Inpex Corporation's Innovation Score?

Inpex Corporation has an Innovation Score of 40.2 out of 100 (top 36% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Inpex Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Inpex Corporation's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Inpex Corporation's patents?

Inpex Corporation's patents average 6.5 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 Inpex Corporation 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

Inpex Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Inpex Corporation focus on?

Inpex Corporation'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 38 patents, ranking #30 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 22 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, Inpex ranks #7,715 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 22 technology areas.

#7,715
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 36%
by Innovation Score (40.2/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7715 · Foreign Corporation #7,715 · 42 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,715/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hesai Technology
CPC-FOCUS C10G · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. (±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 Inpex’s 40.2 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 13.0 pts (32%) Velocity 6.7 pts (17%) Breadth 16.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DFine · near

40
Hermes Microvision · near

40
Inpex · this assignee

40
Lyondell Chemical… · near

40
The Pullman · near

40
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Inpex's Innovation Score is 40.2/100 (top 36% 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 Inpex?

Each dot is one of Inpex’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). Inpex’s own 6.5 claims/patent is at or below the 16.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Inpex's grants concentrate

Inpex Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 90.5% 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 2016 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Inpex sits between Hesai Technology Co., Ltd. and Inotera Memories, Inc..

Inpex's three-year grant acceleration

Inpex Corporation shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 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.

Hesai Technology

42
Hewlett-packard I…

42
Huawei Duesseldorf

42
Impact Selector I…

42
Ipsen Pharma S

42
Iridium Satellite

42
Incase Designs

42
Inotera Memories

42
Inpex ◀

42

What this shows Inpex holds 42 patents at rank #7,713, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Inpex

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,713 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Inpex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Inpex ranks #30 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (40 here).

The Pullman Company 40 Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P. 40 DFine, Inc. 40 Hermes Microvision Inc. 40

Inpex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

40 Top 36% higher than 64% 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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Inpex Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	13	31.0%
2016	15	35.7%
2017	7	16.7%
2018	4	9.5%
2021	1	2.4%
2023	1	2.4%
2025partial year	1	2.4%

Which technologies does Inpex Corporation 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 38

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 21

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 9

B01D - Separation 6

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

C10K - Purifying OR Modifying THE Chemical Composition OF Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide 3

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 3

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 3

Y02C - Capture, Storage, Sequestration OR Disposal OF Greenhouse Gases [GHG] 2

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 2

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 1

F28D - Heat-exchange Apparatus, NOT Provided FOR IN Another Subclass, IN Which THE Heat-exchange Media DO NOT Come Into Direct Contact 1

F22B - Methods OF Steam GENERATION; Steam Boilers 1

F01K - Steam Engine PLANTS; Steam ACCUMULATORS; Engine Plants NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Engines Using Special Working Fluids OR Cycles 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Inpex Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Inpex Corporation'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), 90.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #7,715 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Inpex Corporation against Hesai Technology Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.2/100 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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