Where does Shell OIL Compny rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shell OIL Compny ranks #503 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 Shell OIL Compny hold?

Shell OIL Compny holds 890 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 163 technology areas.

What is Shell OIL Compny's Innovation Score?

Shell OIL Compny has an Innovation Score of 57.4 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shell OIL Compny's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Shell OIL Compny'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 Shell OIL Compny's patents?

Shell OIL Compny's patents average 14.2 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 Shell OIL Compny 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

Shell OIL Compny

Q: What technology areas does Shell OIL Compny focus on?

Shell OIL Compny'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 280 patents, ranking #5 of 504 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 163 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 890 granted patents across 163 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Shell ranks #503 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 890 patents across 163 technology areas.

#503
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.4/100): 14.2
avg claims per patent: -70%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R503 · US Corporation #503 · 890 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 890 grants
TOP-DECILE #503/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Illumina
CPC-WIDE C10G · 163 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -70% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Illumina, 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 Shell’s 57.4 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 23.5 pts (41%) Velocity 0.4 pts (1%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 8.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arconic · near

57
Hefei Visionox… · near

57
House of Design · near

57
Shell OIL Compny · this assignee

57
Thales DIS France SAS · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shell's Innovation Score is 57.4/100 (top 5% 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 Shell?

Each dot is one of Shell’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). Shell’s own 14.2 claims/patent is at or below the 15.6 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Shell's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Shell OIL Compny received 205 grants versus 685 in 2015–2019 (-70% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 185 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 2. Lead class C10G accounts for 31.5% of the portfolio across 163 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Globalfoundries U.S. Inc. (#499) and Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (#507).

Shell's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shell OIL Compny moved from 300 to 20 grants (0.07x 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 #3,215. See the growth leaderboard.

Globalfoundries U…

896
Arkema France

892
Illumina

890
Nissan North Amer…

890
Shell OIL Compny ◀

890
Epistar

889
Stmicroelectronics

888
Zhejiang Universi…

888
Societe des Produ…

887

What this shows Shell holds 890 patents at rank #503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shell

By rank, the assignees closest to #503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shell, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10G (Cracking Hydrocarbon OILS), Shell ranks #5 of 504 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Thales DIS France SAS 57 Arconic Technologies LLC 57 Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd. 57 House of Design LLC 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (14.2 here).

Dow Silicones Corporation 14.2 avg Furuno Electric Company Limited 14.2 avg Atieva, Inc. 14.2 avg Irwin Industrial Tool Company 14.2 avg

Shell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Shell OIL Compny patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	185	20.8%
2016	163	18.3%
2017	115	12.9%
2018	107	12.0%
2019	115	12.9%
2020	118	13.3%
2021	67	7.5%
2022	18	2.0%
2024	2	0.2%

Which technologies does Shell OIL Compny 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 280

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 223

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 214

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 182

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 170

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 99

B01D - Separation 94

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 57

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 53

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 47

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 44

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 42

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 41

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 41

F25J - Liquefaction, Solidification OR Separation OF Gases OR Gaseous ; OR Liquefied GASEOUS; Mixtures BY Pressure AND Cold Treatment ; OR BY Bringing Them Into THE Supercritical State 28

Top 15 of 163 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

Shell OIL Compny's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shell OIL Compny'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), 31.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10G
Ranked #503 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shell OIL Compny against Globalfoundries U.S. Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.4/100 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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