Where does Shell USA, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shell USA, Inc. ranks #2,830 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 USA, Inc. hold?

Shell USA, Inc. holds 136 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 63 technology areas.

What is Shell USA, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Shell USA, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 69.0 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%).

What technology areas does Shell USA, Inc. focus on?

Shell USA, Inc.'s top technology area is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus) with 37 patents, ranking #121 of 2,755 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 63 CPC subclasses total.

Is Shell USA, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Shell USA, Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Shell USA, Inc.'s patents?

Shell USA, Inc.'s patents average 11.7 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 USA, Inc. 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 USA, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 136 granted patents across 63 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shell ranks #2,830 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 136 patents across 63 technology areas.

#2,830
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.0/100): 11.7
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2830 · US Corporation #2,830 · 136 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 136 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,830/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Makino Milling Machine
CPC-WIDE B01J · 63 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.0/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Makino Milling Machine 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.

How Shell’s 69.0 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 17.0 pts (25%) Velocity 20.0 pts (29%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 7.0 pts (10%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Amgen · near

69
Cirrus Logic · near

69
Shell USA · this assignee

69
TDK · near

69
The Secretary of… · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shell's Innovation Score is 69.0/100 (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 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 11.7 claims/patent is at or below the 12.5 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

Grant history spans 2022–2025. Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2022 at 38 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 35. Lead class B01J accounts for 27.2% of the portfolio across 63 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd. (#2,826) and Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (#2,834).

Shell's three-year grant acceleration

Shell USA, Inc. shows 110 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Makino Milling Ma…

136
NOF

136
Parade

136
Playnitride Displ…

136
SK Chemicals

136
Syracuse Universi…

136
Sion Power

136
Taiho Pharmaceuti…

136
Shell USA ◀

136

What this shows Shell holds 136 patents at rank #2,830, 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 #2,830 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes)

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 B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes), Shell ranks #121 of 2,755 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

TDK Electronics AG 69 Amgen Inc. 69 Cirrus Logic, Inc. 69 The Secretary of State for Defence 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.7 here).

Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. 11.7 avg Industry-academia Cooperation Group OF Sejong University 11.7 avg Giga-byte Technology Co., Ltd. 11.7 avg International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC 11.7 avg

Shell's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Shell USA, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	38	27.9%
2023	35	25.7%
2024	37	27.2%
2025partial year	26	19.1%

Which technologies does Shell USA, Inc. patent most?

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 37

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 32

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 27

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 19

B01D - Separation 19

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 17

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 16

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 16

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 12

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 11

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 10

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 6

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 5

Top 15 of 63 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 USA, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shell USA, Inc.'s lead technology class is B01J (Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus), 27.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B01J
Ranked #2,830 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shell USA, Inc. against Makino Milling Machine Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.0/100 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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