Where does JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation ranks #1,740 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 JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation hold?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation holds 234 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's Innovation Score?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation has an Innovation Score of 48.7 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's patents?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's patents average 8.1 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 JX Nippon Oil & Energy 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

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation

Q: What technology areas does JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation focus on?

JX Nippon Oil & Energy 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 93 patents, ranking #14 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 234 granted patents across 88 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, JX ranks #1,740 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 234 patents across 88 technology areas.

#1,740
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.7/100): 8.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1740 · Foreign Corporation #1,740 · 234 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 234 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,740/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Saudi Basic Industries
CPC-WIDE C10G · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.7/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (±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 JX’s 48.7 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 18.9 pts (39%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (51%) Claim depth 4.8 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Flawless Holdings · near

49
JX Nippon Oil & Energy · this assignee

49
Med-el Elektromedizi… · near

49
TSE · near

49
Valent U · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows JX's Innovation Score is 48.7/100 (top 16% 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 JX?

Each dot is one of JX’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). JX’s own 8.1 claims/patent is at or below the 11.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How JX's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation received 1 grants versus 233 in 2015–2019 (-100% equal-window velocity, bottom decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 74 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class C10G accounts for 39.7% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (#1,736) and Beihang University (#1,744).

Consejo Superior…

235
Tessera

235
Williams-sonoma

235
Yoshino Kogyosho

235
Saudi Basic Indus…

234
JX Nippon Oil & E… ◀

234
Alstom Transport

233
Aptar France SAS

233
Beihang University

233

What this shows JX holds 234 patents at rank #1,740, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near JX

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,740 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for JX, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), JX ranks #14 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH 49 Valent U.S.A., LLC 49 TSE Co., Ltd. 49 Flawless Holdings Limited 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.1 here).

Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd. 8.1 avg USG Interiors, LLC 8.1 avg Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha 8.1 avg Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha 8.1 avg

JX's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	73	31.2%
2016	74	31.6%
2017	63	26.9%
2018	17	7.3%
2019	6	2.6%
2020	1	0.4%

Which technologies does JX Nippon Oil & Energy 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 93

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 65

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 63

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 59

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 39

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 32

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 29

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 23

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 22

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 17

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 16

B01D - Separation 15

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 12

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 11

Top 15 of 88 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

JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

JX Nippon Oil & Energy 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), 39.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #1,740 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation against Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.7/100 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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