Where does Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC ranks #11,856 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

What is Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's Innovation Score?

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC has an Innovation Score of 34.2 out of 100 (47th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's patents?

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's patents average 10.7 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC

Q: How many patents does Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC hold?

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC holds 26 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2023, spanning 18 technology areas.

Q: What technology areas does Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC focus on?

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's top technology area is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition) with 10 patents, ranking #42 of 300 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property 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 PatentsView assignee record - 26 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2023. 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: C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Valvoline ranks #11,856 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 26 patents across 18 technology areas.

#11,856
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 47th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.2/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11856 · US Corporation #11,856 · 26 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 26 grants
UPPER-Q #11,856/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Unarco Industries
CPC-FOCUS C10M · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.2/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Unarco Industries LLC (±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 Valvoline’s 34.2 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 11.4 pts (33%) Velocity 1.3 pts (4%) Breadth 15.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 6.4 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
RGB Systems · near

34
Centre Luxembourgeoi… · near

34
Valvoline Licensing… · this assignee

34
Pergo (EUROPE) AB · near

34
TBL Licensing · near

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valvoline's Innovation Score is 34.2/100 (47th 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 Valvoline?

Each dot is one of Valvoline’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). Valvoline’s own 10.7 claims/patent is at or below the 12.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Valvoline's grants concentrate

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (10 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Valvoline sits between University OF Miyazaki and Vicis IP, LLC.

Valvoline's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC moved from 20 to 4 grants (0.20x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

University OF Miy…

26
Ustav Organicke C…

26
Unarco Industries

26
University of Pre…

26
Vanchip (Tianjin)…

26
Vast Glory & Hard…

26
VCE

26
Vicis IP

26
Valvoline Licensi… ◀

26

What this shows Valvoline holds 26 patents at rank #11,856, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valvoline

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,856 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C10M (Lubricating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Valvoline, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C10M (Lubricating Compositions), Valvoline ranks #42 of 300 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.) 34 Pergo (EUROPE) AB 34 TBL Licensing LLC 34 RGB Systems, Inc. 34

Valvoline's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 47th percentile higher than 47% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	2	7.7%
2019	6	23.1%
2020	4	15.4%
2021	10	38.5%
2022	3	11.5%
2023	1	3.8%

Which technologies does Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC patent most?

C10M - Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition 10

C10N - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10m Relating TO Lubricating Compositions 10

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 3

B01D - Separation 3

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

F01M - Lubricating OF Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Lubricating Internal Combustion ENGINES; Crankcase Ventilating 2

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 2

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 1

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC's lead technology class is C10M (Lubricating Compositions ; USE OF Chemical Substances Either Alone OR AS Lubricating Ingredients IN A Lubricating Composition), 38.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C10M
Ranked #11,856 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valvoline Licensing AND Intellectual Property LLC against University OF Miyazaki, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.2/100 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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