Company Analysis

Albertsons Companies, Inc. (ACI)

NYSE: ACI · Retail-Grocery Stores · Boise, ID · filing with the SEC since 2015
Grade4.2
◀ Past 3.7● Present 5.1▶ Future 3.1

Patents

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

1 patent 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 Albertsons Companies, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
1
1 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
2
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'80'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Albertsons Companies, Inc its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
2 published
Sunrich Mercantile Corp. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Names not counted (2)
Philtech Inc.
Most of its patents print JP; this name counts in PH. 18 granted and 6 published under it are not counted.
Philtech Inc.
Most of its patents print JP; this name counts in PH. 0 granted and 11 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Apr 15, 19804,197,940Circular cake tray and coverHandlingSunrich Mercantile Corp.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 27, 20252025/0363512SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COST MANAGEMENTIT methods for managementAlbertsons Companies, Inc
Jul 10, 20252025/0225569RECIPE SCANNER AND SHOPPING CART GENERATORIT methods for managementAlbertsons Companies, Inc
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: IT methods for management 2.

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 ACI · research, not advice