Where does Swift Fuels, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Swift Fuels, LLC ranks #14,969 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 Swift Fuels, LLC hold?

Swift Fuels, LLC holds 20 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 7 technology areas.

What is Swift Fuels, LLC's Innovation Score?

Swift Fuels, LLC has an Innovation Score of 31.8 out of 100 (39th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Swift Fuels, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Swift Fuels, LLC's recent grant velocity is +25% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Swift Fuels, LLC's patents?

Swift Fuels, LLC's patents average 15.0 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 Swift Fuels, LLC 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

Swift Fuels, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Swift Fuels, LLC focus on?

Swift Fuels, LLC'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 13 patents, ranking #44 of 450 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 7 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 20 granted patents across 7 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: 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, Swift ranks #14,969 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 20 patents across 7 technology areas.

#14,969
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 39th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.8/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R14969 · US Corporation #14,969 · 20 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 20 grants
MID-PACK #14,969/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH State of Oregon…
CPC-NARROW C10L · 7 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ. (±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 Swift’s 31.8 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 10.5 pts (33%) Velocity 3.0 pts (9%) Breadth 9.4 pts (29%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (28%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Swift Fuels · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Swift's Innovation Score is 31.8/100 (39th 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 Swift?

Each dot is one of Swift’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). Swift’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Swift's grants concentrate

Swift Fuels, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 7 CPC subclasses with 65% 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 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Swift sits between State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ. and T. K. Chin Company Ltd..

Swift's three-year grant acceleration

Swift Fuels, LLC shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

State of Oregon a…

20
Stereovision Imag…

20
Sterilance Medica…

20
Stryker Trauma

20
Synactive

20
Syntrix Biosystems

20
Systems Spray-coo…

20
T K Chin

20
Swift Fuels ◀

20

What this shows Swift holds 20 patents at rank #14,965, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Swift

By rank, the assignees closest to #14,965 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10L (Fuels)

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

Swift's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 39th percentile higher than 39% 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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Swift Fuels, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	5.0%
2017	2	10.0%
2018	2	10.0%
2019	3	15.0%
2020	3	15.0%
2021	3	15.0%
2022	3	15.0%
2024	1	5.0%
2025partial year	2	10.0%

Which technologies does Swift Fuels, LLC 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 13

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 10

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 8

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 1

Y02T - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Transportation 1

H01T - Spark GAPS; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark GAPS; Sparking PLUGS; Corona DEVICES; Generating Ions TO BE Introduced Into Non-enclosed Gases 1

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

Swift Fuels, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Swift Fuels, LLC'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), 65% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10L
Ranked #14,969 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Swift Fuels, LLC against State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Ed. on Behalf of Oregon State Univ., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.8/100 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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