Where does Marathon Petroleum Company LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Marathon Petroleum Company LP ranks #2,745 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 Marathon Petroleum Company LP hold?

Marathon Petroleum Company LP holds 141 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 54 technology areas.

What is Marathon Petroleum Company LP's Innovation Score?

Marathon Petroleum Company LP has an Innovation Score of 75.6 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 Marathon Petroleum Company LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Marathon Petroleum Company LP's recent grant velocity is +500% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Marathon Petroleum Company LP's patents?

Marathon Petroleum Company LP's patents average 22.4 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 Marathon Petroleum Company LP 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

Marathon Petroleum Company LP

Q: What technology areas does Marathon Petroleum Company LP focus on?

Marathon Petroleum Company LP'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 62 patents, ranking #22 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 54 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 141 granted patents across 54 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, Marathon ranks #2,745 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 141 patents across 54 technology areas.

#2,745
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (75.6/100): 22.4
avg claims per patent: +500%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2745 · US Corporation #2,745 · 141 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 141 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,745/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH International Truck…
CPC-WIDE C10G · 54 areas
INNOV-STRONG 75.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 22.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +500% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC (±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 Marathon’s 75.6 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 17.1 pts (23%) Velocity 20.0 pts (26%) Breadth 25.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 13.5 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Capital ONE Services · near

76
International… · near

76
Marathon Petroleum · this assignee

76
Canon · near

76
Stryker European… · near

75
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Marathon's Innovation Score is 75.6/100 (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 Marathon?

Each dot is one of Marathon’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). Marathon’s own 22.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Marathon's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Marathon Petroleum Company LP received 102 grants versus 17 in 2015–2019 (+500% equal-window velocity, top decile growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 44 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 2. Lead class C10G accounts for 44% of the portfolio across 54 subclasses. Volume neighbours: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC (#2,741) and Therabody, Inc. (#2,749).

Marathon's three-year grant acceleration

Marathon Petroleum Company LP shows 92 grants in 2022–2024 against only 17 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.

International Tru…

141
Kemet

141
Kowa

141
Laird

141
Nxstage Medical

141
Optis Wireless Te…

141
Synaptive Medical

141
Therabody

141
Marathon Petroleum ◀

141

What this shows Marathon holds 141 patents at rank #2,745, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Marathon

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,745 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Marathon, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Marathon ranks #22 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (76 here).

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 76 International Business Machines Corporation 76 Stryker European Operations Limited 75 Capital ONE Services, LLC 76

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (22.4 here).

iBiquity Digital Corporation 22.4 avg Purdue Pharmaceuticals L.P. 22.4 avg Switchlab Inc. 22.4 avg Cylance Inc. 22.4 avg

Marathon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

76 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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Marathon Petroleum Company LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	1.4%
2016	3	2.1%
2017	3	2.1%
2018	2	1.4%
2019	7	5.0%
2020	3	2.1%
2021	7	5.0%
2022	10	7.1%
2023	38	27.0%
2024	44	31.2%
2025partial year	22	15.6%

Which technologies does Marathon Petroleum Company LP 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 62

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 28

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 27

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 25

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 20

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 19

F17D - Pipe-line SYSTEMS; Pipe-lines 19

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 18

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 17

F17C - Vessels FOR Containing OR Storing Compressed, Liquefied OR Solidified GASES; Fixed-capacity GAS-HOLDERS; Filling Vessels With, OR Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, OR Solidified Gases 17

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 17

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 14

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 13

B01D - Separation 12

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 11

Top 15 of 54 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

Marathon Petroleum Company LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Marathon Petroleum Company LP'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), 44% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #2,745 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Marathon Petroleum Company LP against International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 75.6/100 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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