Company Analysis

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNQ)

NYSE: CNQ · Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas · Calgary Alberta Canada, AB · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade7.0
◀ Past 7.8● Present 6.7▶ Future 6.0
1 est.

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

4 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
4
4 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
7
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'05'14'17'19'21'23'24
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Basic materials chemistry2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED its own name
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
2 published
CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
0 granted
5 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Oct 17, 202311,788,014High temperature paraffinic froth treatment processBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
Mar 23, 202110,954,448High temperature paraffinic froth treatment processBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
Mar 5, 201910,222,147Firetube scraperThermal processes and apparatusCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
May 2, 20179,637,686Process for treating mined oil sands depositsBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 27, 20242024/0212475DETECTING A MALFUNCTION ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMPULSE LINEControlCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
Nov 11, 20212021/0347667CO-DEPOSITION OF OIL SAND TAILINGS STREAMS AND TAILINGS PRODUCTSEnvironmental technologyCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
Jun 3, 20212021/0163826HIGH TEMPERATURE PARAFFINIC FROTH TREATMENT PROCESSBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED · patent 11,788,014 granted from it
Feb 21, 20192019/0055474HIGH TEMPERATURE PARAFFINIC FROTH TREATMENT PROCESSBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED · patent 10,954,448 granted from it
Jan 26, 20172017/0023319FIRETUBE SCRAPERThermal processes and apparatusCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED · patent 10,222,147 granted from it
Oct 23, 20142014/0311952PROCESS FOR TREATING MINED OIL SANDS DEPOSITSBasic materials chemistryCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED · patent 9,637,686 granted from it
Dec 8, 20052005/0269084Junction assembly, system and method for providing a downhole junctionCivil engineeringCANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LIMITED
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Control 1.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton CNQ · research, not advice