Company Analysis

Sunoco L.P. (SUN)

TXSE: SUN · Petroleum Refining · Dallas, TX · filing with the SEC since 2012
Grade4.9
◀ Past 3.0● Present 5.6▶ Future 6.8
2 est.

Patents

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

7 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 Sunoco L.P.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name, its holding company
By yearGrantedApplications published
'99'04'07'09'17
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Sunoco, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 granted
0 published
Sunoco Development, Inc. its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name Sunoco LP
1 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Oct 24, 20179,796,513Overcap with cutting ring for rigid paper cansHandlingSunoco Development, Inc.
Oct 16, 20077,282,539Resin compositions for producing biaxially oriented polypropylene filmsMacromolecular chemistry, polymersSunoco, Inc.
Sep 18, 20077,270,687Reduced emissions transportation fuelBasic materials chemistrySunoco, Inc.
Nov 2, 20046,812,273Manufacturing inorganic polymer hybridsMacromolecular chemistry, polymersSunoco, Inc.
May 11, 20046,733,898Resin compositions for producing biaxially oriented polypropylene filmsMacromolecular chemistry, polymersSunoco, Inc.
Nov 23, 19995,990,348Conversion of alkanes to unsaturated carboxylic acids over heteroploy acids supported on polyoxometallate saltsOrganic fine chemistrySunoco, Inc.
Sep 14, 19995,952,532Hydroxylation of aromatics using molecular oxygen as the terminal oxidant without coreductantChemical engineeringSunoco, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 26, 20092009/0291241Core for Pavement Marking Tape or Other Highly Aggressive Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive TapeSurface technology, coatingSunoco Development, Inc.

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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