Oil-Dri Corporation of America (ODC)
NYSE: ODC · Miscellaneous Manufacturing Industries · Chicago, IL · filing with the SEC since 1994
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 202650 patents granted to the 3 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 Oil-Dri Corporation of America’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
50
44 utility, 5 design, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
22
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a former name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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
Environmental technology1
Pharmaceuticals1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 published
Oil-Dri Corporation of America a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
18 published
Harvest Ventures, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Names not counted (1)
Oil-Dri SARL
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in CH. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2025 | RE50,452 | Cat litter product | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA | |
| May 24, 2022 | 11,337,996 | Clay product and uses thereof | Pharmaceuticals | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Aug 17, 2021 | 11,091,393 | Surface modification of clay | Environmental technology | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Feb 25, 2020 | 10,568,903 | Clay product and uses thereof | Pharmaceuticals | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Nov 12, 2019 | 10,470,433 | Cat litter product | Other special machines | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Jan 29, 2019 | 10,188,076 | Cat litter product | Other special machines | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Jun 5, 2018 | 9,986,715 | Ultra lightweight clay and polymer high performance clumping cat litter | Other special machines | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Feb 20, 2018 | 9,894,877 | Cat litter product | Other special machines | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Nov 28, 2017 | 9,828,301 | Granule for delivering humates and uses thereof | Basic materials chemistry | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
| Oct 4, 2016 | 9,458,475 | Clay in ethanol production | Biotechnology | OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2022 | 2022/0118154 | CLAY MINERAL-BASED TREATMENTS IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA INFECTION CONTROL | Medical technology | Oil-Dri Corporation of America |
| Aug 12, 2021 | 2021/0243993 | Container | Other special machines | Oil-Dri Corporation of America |
| Mar 4, 2021 | 2021/0059244 | CLAY-BASED CARRIER PLATFORM FOR BIOLOGICALS IN AGRICULTURE | Basic materials chemistry | Oil-Dri Corporation of America |
| May 21, 2020 | 2020/0155595 | CLAY PRODUCT AND USES THEREOF | Pharmaceuticals | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 11,337,996 granted from it |
| Mar 5, 2020 | 2020/0068845 | CAT LITTER PRODUCT | Other special machines | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 11,026,397 granted from it |
| Jul 25, 2019 | 2019/0225541 | SURFACE MODIFICATION OF CLAY | Materials, metallurgy | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 11,091,393 granted from it |
| Apr 25, 2019 | 2019/0116754 | CAT LITTER PRODUCT | Other special machines | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 10,470,433 granted from it |
| Jun 21, 2018 | 2018/0168122 | CAT LITTER PRODUCT | Other special machines | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 10,188,076 granted from it |
| Sep 21, 2017 | 2017/0265429 | CAT LITTER PRODUCT | Other special machines | Oil-Dri Corporation of America · patent 9,894,877 granted from it |
| Sep 7, 2017 | 2017/0251674 | APPLICATION OF POROUS MATERIALS FOR BACTERIAL QUORUM SENSING INHIBITION/DISRUPTION | Basic materials chemistry | Oil-Dri Corporation of America |
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.