What Did The Patent Landscape of Phillips 66 Look Like?

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) 

128 

72 

56 

CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS (B01J) 

105 

45 

43 

ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (C07C) 

77 

35 

45 

SEPARATION (B01D) 

74 

34 

46 

NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF (C01B) 

58 

20 

34 

PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY (H01M) 

52 

4 

8 

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) 

41 

11 

27 

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (H01L) 

33 

12 

36 

MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING CARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS (C08G) 

24 

10 

42 

TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE (C02F) 

20 

8 

40