Where does Oil-dri Corporation OF America rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Oil-dri Corporation OF America ranks #20,191 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 Oil-dri Corporation OF America hold?

Oil-dri Corporation OF America holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Oil-dri Corporation OF America's Innovation Score?

Oil-dri Corporation OF America has an Innovation Score of 36.2 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Oil-dri Corporation OF America's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Oil-dri Corporation OF America's recent grant velocity is -70% 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 Oil-dri Corporation OF America's patents?

Oil-dri Corporation OF America's patents average 21.5 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 Oil-dri Corporation OF America 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

Oil-dri Corporation OF America

Q: What technology areas does Oil-dri Corporation OF America focus on?

Oil-dri Corporation OF America's top technology area is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals) with 8 patents, ranking #120 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 granted patents across 12 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: A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Oil-dri ranks #20,191 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 12 technology areas.

#20,191
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.2/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20191 · US Corporation #20,191 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #20,191/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ocean Optics
CPC-FOCUS A01K · 12 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ocean Optics, Inc. (±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 Oil-dri’s 36.2 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 9.4 pts (26%) Velocity 1.7 pts (5%) Breadth 12.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 12.9 pts (36%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Oil-dri OF America · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Oil-dri's Innovation Score is 36.2/100 (top 47% 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 Oil-dri?

Each dot is one of Oil-dri’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). Oil-dri’s own 21.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 7.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Oil-dri's grants concentrate

Oil-dri Corporation OF America is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 57.1% of grants classified under A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Oil-dri sits between Ocean Optics, Inc. and Optomedia Technology Inc..

Oil-dri's three-year grant acceleration

Oil-dri Corporation OF America shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Ocean Optics

14
Octopus Energy He…

14
Ogura Clutch

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OIL Crops Researc…

14
Olympia Tools Int…

14
OME Technology

14
Opto Tech

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Optomedia Technol…

14
Oil-dri OF America ◀

14

What this shows Oil-dri holds 14 patents at rank #20,186, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Oil-dri

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,186 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A01K (Animal Husbandry)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Oil-dri's primary technology class.

Oil-dri's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% 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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Oil-dri Corporation OF America patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	7.1%
2016	4	28.6%
2017	1	7.1%
2018	2	14.3%
2019	2	14.3%
2020	1	7.1%
2021	1	7.1%
2022	1	7.1%
2025partial year	1	7.1%

Which technologies does Oil-dri Corporation OF America patent most?

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 8

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 2

C05G - Mixtures OF Fertilisers Covered Individually BY Different Subclasses OF Class C05; Mixtures OF ONE OR More Fertilisers With Materials NOT Having A Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g. Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents ; Fertilisers Characterised BY Their Form 1

C05F - Organic Fertilisers NOT Covered BY Subclasses C05b, C05c, e.g. Fertilisers From Waste OR Refuse 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 1

B01D - Separation 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Oil-dri Corporation OF America's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Oil-dri Corporation OF America's lead technology class is A01K (Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals), 57.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A01K
Ranked #20,191 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Oil-dri Corporation OF America against Ocean Optics, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.2/100 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

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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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