Where does Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. ranks #33,475 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 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. hold?

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s Innovation Score?

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. has an Innovation Score of 26.0 out of 100 (19th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s patents?

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s patents average 15.1 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 Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. 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

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.

Q: What technology areas does Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. focus on?

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s top technology area is 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) with 8 patents, ranking #79 of 450 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 7 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. 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: 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-lig).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sunoco ranks #33,475 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 7 technology areas.

#33,475
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 19th percentile
by Innovation Score (26.0/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33475 · US Corporation #33,475 · 8 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,475/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Suncall (SZ)
CPC-NARROW C10L · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 26.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Suncall Technologies (SZ) 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 Sunoco’s 26.0 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 7.6 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 9.4 pts (36%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sunoco Partners… · this assignee

26
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sunoco's Innovation Score is 26.0/100 (19th percentile 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 Sunoco?

Each dot is one of Sunoco’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). Sunoco’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sunoco's grants concentrate

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under 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-lig). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Sunoco sits between Suncall Technologies (SZ) Co., Ltd and Suzhou Alphamab Co., Ltd..

Suncall (SZ)

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Sungilturbine

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Sunrise Wholesale

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Suppremol

8
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8
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8

What this shows Sunoco holds 8 patents at rank #33,288, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sunoco

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,288 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10L (Fuels)

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

Sunoco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

26 19th percentile higher than 19% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

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

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Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	12.5%
2016	3	37.5%
2017	2	25.0%
2019	2	25.0%

Which technologies does Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. patent most?

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 8

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 4

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 4

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 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 3

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Top 7 of 7 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

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P.'s lead technology class is 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-lig), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10L
Ranked #33,475 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. against Suncall Technologies (SZ) Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 26.0/100 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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