Company Analysis

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP)

Nasdaq: ADP · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · Roseland, NJ · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Patents

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

477 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 Automatic Data Processing, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
477
280 utility, 197 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
53
Against 35 in 2024 and 43 in 2023
Applications published
471
76 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
6
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
Computer technology115
IT methods for management34
Digital communication29
Control3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
ADP, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
472 granted
139 published
ADP, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
325 published
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
5 granted
4 published
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a Delaware corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
WORK MARKET, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0390796DIGITAL PLATFORM MATRIX FEATURE GENERATIONComputer technologyADP, Inc.
Dec 18, 20252025/0384069SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING COMPUTATIONAL COMMANDS BASED ON A WEIGHTED, RANKED HIERARCHICAL GRAPHComputer technologyADP, Inc.
Dec 11, 20252025/0378401DELEGATION OF TASKS IN AN ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENTIT methods for managementADP, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0373508AI Gateway - GenAI Platform ServicesDigital communicationADP, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0370898AI Gateway - Synthetic MonitoringDigital communicationADP, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0370896AI Gateway - Normalization of LLM KPIs and Metadata for ObservabilityDigital communicationADP, Inc.
Nov 27, 20252025/0362937COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE FOR USER CHARACTERISTIC BASED APPLICATION CONTENT ADJUSTMENTComputer technologyADP, Inc.
Nov 13, 20252025/0350475SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING VERIFIED PERSONAL CREDENTIALSDigital communicationADP, Inc.
Nov 13, 20252025/0348952TRANSPARENCY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USEIT methods for managementADP, Inc.
Nov 6, 20252025/0342483CARBON EMISSION REDUCTION USING MACHINE LEARNINGIT methods for managementADP, Inc.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 70 · IT methods for management 24 · Digital communication 18 · Control 1 · Audio-visual 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.

SI Assistanton ADP · research, not advice