Where does Saudi Arabian OIL Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Saudi Arabian OIL Company ranks #59 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 Saudi Arabian OIL Company hold?

Saudi Arabian OIL Company holds 6,393 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 341 technology areas.

What is Saudi Arabian OIL Company's Innovation Score?

Saudi Arabian OIL Company has an Innovation Score of 74.9 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 Saudi Arabian OIL Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Saudi Arabian OIL Company's recent grant velocity is +233% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Saudi Arabian OIL Company's patents?

Saudi Arabian OIL Company's patents average 16.9 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 Saudi Arabian OIL Company 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

Saudi Arabian OIL Company

Q: What technology areas does Saudi Arabian OIL Company focus on?

Saudi Arabian OIL Company'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 3,064 patents. Grants appear in 341 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6,393 granted patents across 341 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, Saudi ranks #59 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6,393 patents across 341 technology areas.

#59
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (74.9/100): 16.9
avg claims per patent: +233%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R59 · Foreign Corporation #59 · 6,393 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 6.4K grants
TOP-DECILE #59/49,997
NEAR-PEER The Regents of the…
CPC-BROAD E21B · 341 areas
INNOV-STRONG 74.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +233% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Regents of the University of California (±35 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
Sigmasense · near

75
GE Infrastructure… · near

75
Siemens Energy… · near

75
Saudi Arabian OIL · this assignee

75
Contemporary… · near

75
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Saudi's Innovation Score is 74.9/100 (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 Saudi's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Saudi Arabian OIL Company received 4,367 grants versus 1,311 in 2015–2019 (+233% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 1,006 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 122. Lead class E21B accounts for 47.9% of the portfolio across 341 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Applied Materials, Inc. (#55) and Hitachi, Ltd. (#63).

Saudi's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Saudi Arabian OIL Company moved from 2,008 to 2,864 grants (1.43x 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 #500. See the growth leaderboard.

Applied Materials

6,997
LG Chem

6,727
Covidien

6,485
The Regents of th…

6,428
Saudi Arabian OIL ◀

6,393
3M Innovative Pro…

5,993
Capital ONE Servi…

5,990
Infineon

5,936
Hitachi

5,890

What this shows Saudi holds 6,393 patents at rank #59, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Saudi

By rank, the assignees closest to #59 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E21B (Earth OR Rock Drilling)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (75 here).

Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG 75 GE Infrastructure Technology LLC 75 Sigmasense, LLC. 75 Contemporary Amperex Technology (HONG KONG) Limited 75

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.9 here).

American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. 16.9 avg Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 16.9 avg Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. 16.9 avg Nelson Irrigation Corporation 16.9 avg

Saudi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

75 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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Saudi Arabian OIL Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	122	1.9%
2016	171	2.7%
2017	221	3.5%
2018	292	4.6%
2019	505	7.9%
2020	659	10.3%
2021	844	13.2%
2022	941	14.7%
2023	1,006	15.7%
2024	917	14.3%
2025partial year	715	11.2%

Which technologies does Saudi Arabian OIL Company patent most?

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 3,064

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1,118

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 851

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 837

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 780

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 614

B01D - Separation 598

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 396

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 357

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 339

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 332

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 271

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 170

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 168

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 154

Top 15 of 341 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#59

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

74.9 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

Saudi Arabian OIL Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Saudi Arabian OIL Company'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), 47.9% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E21B
Ranked #59 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Saudi Arabian OIL Company against Applied Materials, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 74.9/100 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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