Where does PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS ranks #2,133 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 PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS hold?

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS holds 185 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 112 technology areas.

What is PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's Innovation Score?

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS has an Innovation Score of 70.2 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 PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's recent grant velocity is +203% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's patents?

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's patents average 11.8 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 PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS 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

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS

Q: What technology areas does PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS focus on?

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's top technology area is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells) with 73 patents. Grants appear in 112 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 185 granted patents across 112 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: E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Petróleo ranks #2,133 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 185 patents across 112 technology areas.

#2,133
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.2/100): 11.8
avg claims per patent: +203%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2133 · Foreign Corporation #2,133 · 185 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 185 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,133/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cooler Master
CPC-WIDE E21B · 112 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +203% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cooler Master 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
CreateMe · near

70
Sony Interactive… · near

70
ResMed Pty · near

70
PETRÓLEO Brasileiro… · this assignee

70
Igus · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Petróleo's Innovation Score is 70.2/100 (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.

How Petróleo's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS received 103 grants versus 34 in 2015–2019 (+203% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2024 at 50 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 1. Lead class E21B accounts for 39.5% of the portfolio across 112 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Cooler Master Co., Ltd. (#2,128) and ZEDEL (#2,136).

Petróleo's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS moved from 20 to 94 grants (4.70x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #31. See the growth leaderboard.

Cooler Master

185
Fujitsu Semicondu…

185
National Taiwan U…

185
Ossur Iceland EHF

185
Proterial

185
Perkinelmer Healt…

185
Raytheon BBN

185
Zedel

185
PETRÓLEO Brasilei… ◀

185

What this shows PETRÓLEO holds 185 patents at rank #2,132, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near PETRÓLEO

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,132 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for PETRÓLEO, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

ResMed Pty Ltd 70 Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. 70 CreateMe Technologies Inc. 70 Igus GMBH 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.8 here).

Safran Electrical & Power 11.8 avg Nidec Sankyo Corporation 11.8 avg Daicel Corporation 11.8 avg Thales 11.8 avg

Petróleo's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 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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PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	5.9%
2016	7	3.8%
2017	1	0.5%
2018	4	2.2%
2019	11	5.9%
2020	3	1.6%
2021	6	3.2%
2022	15	8.1%
2023	29	15.7%
2024	50	27.0%
2025partial year	48	25.9%

Which technologies does PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 73

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 30

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 24

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 24

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 22

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 18

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 15

B01D - Separation 13

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 13

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 12

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 11

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

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 9

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 6

Top 15 of 112 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#2,133

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

70.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS's lead technology class is E21B (Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells), 39.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #2,133 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare PETRÓLEO Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRAS against Cooler Master Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.2/100 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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