Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
7 patents granted to the 6 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 Valero Energy Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
10
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
6
a subsidiary, 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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Basic materials chemistry2
Chemical engineering1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
VALERO SERVICES, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedValero Services, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
6 publishedValero Energy Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedMRP Properties LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedMRP Properties LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 publishedValero Refining Company - California a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 22, 2025 | 12,281,272 | Production of renewable fuels | Basic materials chemistry | VALERO SERVICES, INC. |
| Apr 22, 2025 | 12,281,271 | Production of renewable fuels and intermediates | Basic materials chemistry | VALERO SERVICES, INC. |
| Jun 11, 2024 | 12,005,375 | High capacity tray for liquid-liquid treating | Chemical engineering | VALERO SERVICES, INC. |
| Aug 6, 2019 | 10,371,713 | Measurement of the flow velocity and the flow direction of gases and liquids | Measurement | MRP Properties LLC |
| Jun 7, 2016 | 9,361,615 | System and method for in-store activation of credit cards | IT methods for management | VALERO SERVICES, INC. |
| Aug 2, 2005 | 6,922,984 | Heat recovery circuit | Engines, pumps, turbines | Valero Refining Company - California |
| Dec 26, 2000 | 6,165,368 | Method of controlling deposition of foulants in processing equipment used to process products streams produced by the dehydrogenation of aliphatic hydrocarbons | Organic fine chemistry | Valero Energy Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0387775 | COMPOSITIONS FOR CO2 SEPARATION FROM HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFLUENTS | Chemical engineering | Valero Services, Inc. |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0387774 | LITHIUM ZIRCONATE ENHANCED COMPOSITIONS FOR INCREASED REACTION KINETICS OF CO2 CHEMISORPTION/DESORPTION AT HIGH TEMPERATURE | Environmental technology | Valero Services, Inc. |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 2024/0253985 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGEN FROM NATURAL GAS | Materials, metallurgy | Valero Services, Inc. |
| Jan 19, 2023 | 2023/0019086 | PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE CRUDE OIL | Basic materials chemistry | VALERO SERVICES, INC. |
| Sep 8, 2022 | 2022/0280884 | HIGH CAPACITY TRAY FOR LIQUID-LIQUID TREATING | Chemical engineering | VALERO SERVICES, INC. · patent 12,005,375 granted from it |
| May 5, 2022 | 2022/0134252 | ENCLOSED PARTITION DIVIDING WALL DISTILLATION COLUMN AND USES THEREOF | Organic fine chemistry | Valero Services, Inc. |
| Mar 28, 2019 | 2019/0093035 | PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE FUELS | Basic materials chemistry | Valero Services, Inc. · patent 12,281,272 granted from it |
| Mar 28, 2019 | 2019/0093027 | PRODUCTION OF RENEWABLE FUELS AND INTERMEDIATES | Basic materials chemistry | Valero Services, Inc. · patent 12,281,271 granted from it |
| Dec 7, 2017 | 2017/0350915 | Measurement of the Flow Velocity and the Flow Direction of Gases and Liquids | Measurement | MRP Properties LLC · patent 10,371,713 granted from it |
| Mar 3, 2005 | 2005/0044859 | Heat recovery circuit | Engines, pumps, turbines | Valero Energy Corporation · patent 6,922,984 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Materials, metallurgy 1 · Chemical engineering 1 · Environmental technology 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.