What Did The Patent Landscape of Marathon Petroleum Look Like? 

Marathon Petroleum Corporation is a leading American petroleum refining company that was established in 1887 in Findlay, Ohio. Today, Marathon Petroleum operates a diverse network of refineries, pipelines, and marketing assets across the United States, providing transportation fuels, lubricants, and other products to customers throughout the country.

Marathon Petroleum has a total of 240 patents globally. Out of 240 patents, 43 patents are active.   

Have a look at some of the most well-known patents held by Marathon Petroleum that we have covered in this article. You can also get information on Marathon Petroleum’s patents, the global patent filing activity country-wise, its historical patent filing trends, and many more statistics regarding Marathon Petroleum’s patent portfolio.   

Patent-application Success Trend Year Wise In Marathon Petroleum

This chart shows the number of applications filed and the number of grants from these applications. Grant rate is a good indicator to identify successful applications and the graph helps to understand the progress in the technology area.

Detailed Patent Portfolio Of Marathon Petroleum

Publication Type	Simple Legal Status	Legal State	Count of Publications
PATENT	DEAD	EXPIRED	78
		CEASED	30
		NON-PAYMENT	12
		ABANDONED	1
	ACTIVE	GRANTED	34
	PENDING	EXAMINATION	3
APPLICATION	DEAD	LAPSED	11
		DISCONTINUATION	10
		CEASED	7
		EXPIRED	6
		NON-PAYMENT	3
		ABANDONED	2
		WITHDRAWN	1
	ACTIVE	GRANTED	19
	PENDING	EXAMINATION	10
	PENDING	PUBLISHED	1
	UNDETERMINED	UNDETERMINED	2
DESIGN	DEAD	EXPIRED	8
UTILITY MODEL	DEAD	EXPIRED	1

Technology Domain-wise Patent Trend in Marathon Petroleum

The chart above distributes patents filed till 2021 in Marathon Petroleum on the basis of the technology protected in patents. This helps to understand the most frequently used concepts and the key focus areas in the technology space.

Top Publications In The Domain With Their Forward Citation Frequency

The table below depicts the patents with most number of forward citations. These patents are likely to be the source of advancement in the domain and can be considered as valuable and core inventions.

Publication Number	Year Wise Break Down					Count of Citing Patents
Publication Number	< 2006	2006-2010	2011-2015	2016-2020	>2020	Count of Citing Patents
US-5349535-A	81	70	123	98	30	402
US-20080216391-A1	0	31	191	127	28	377
US-5382779-A	136	116	88	22	6	368
US-6820062-B1	19	82	135	58	10	304
US-5243546-A	66	44	22	16	6	154
US-20100076233-A1	0	7	84	50	12	153
US-20030018490-A1	15	51	38	32	14	150
US-20040133445-A1	4	31	86	18	2	141
US-5307423-A	29	49	45	10	0	133
US-4407045-A	41	21	19	28	7	116

Who Were The Leading Patent Filers Countries Till 2021 In Marathon Petroleum?

IPC Classification Wise Patent Trend In Marathon Petroleum

The table below represents the top 10 market domains according to their IPC classification where inventors believed it was critical to safeguard certain technical inventions.

IPC Classification	Number of Applications	Number of Granted	% Granted
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 (C10G)	49	31	63
ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (C07C)	23	12	52
CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS (B01J)	21	12	57
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (G01N)	20	17	85
COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS (C08L)	14	12	86
FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES OR C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS;  USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES;  FIRE-LIGHTERS (C10L)	14	5	36
EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS, OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS (E21B)	13	10	77
WORKING-UP TAR, PITCH, ASPHALT, BITUMEN; PYROLIGNEOUS ACID (C10C)	12	9	75
SEPARATION (B01D)	11	9	82
NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF (C01B)	8	7	88

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