Company Analysis

Imperial Oil Limited (IMO)

NYSE: IMO · Petroleum Refining · Calgary, AB · filing with the SEC since 2002
Grade6.9
◀ Past 7.7● Present 7.5▶ Future 4.7
1 est.

Patents

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

29 patents granted to the name 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 Imperial Oil Limited’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
29
29 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
0
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name1 counted
Imperial Oil Limited its own name
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
29 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Mar 8, 19945,292,507Method of using polysaccharides to stabilize microorganisms for inoculating plant seedsBiotechnologyImperial Oil Limited
Dec 10, 19854,558,211Transaction terminal systemIT methods for managementImperial Oil Limited
Nov 19, 19854,553,362Prefabricated building unitsCivil engineeringImperial Oil Limited
Aug 6, 19854,533,778Traction fluid lubricants derived from mineral oilBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited
Jun 7, 19834,387,256Traction fluid lubricants derived from coal tarBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited
May 17, 19834,383,914Dilution centrifuging of bitumen froth from the hot water process for tar sandBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited
Jan 26, 19824,313,228Wireless link between vehicles and a stationary installationTelecommunicationsImperial Oil Limited
Sep 30, 19804,225,433Filtration of hot water extraction process whole tailingsBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited
May 6, 19804,201,656Process aid addition in hot water process based on feed fines contentBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited
Apr 15, 19804,197,937Non-ionic emulsifying release agent for bituminous sands conveyor beltBasic materials chemistryImperial Oil Limited

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.

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