Aflac Inc. (AFL)
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 20264 patents granted to the name 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 Aflac Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
5 published
Names not counted (1)
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2019 | D846,040 | Toy duck | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) | |
| Aug 8, 1995 | 5,439,255 | Apparatus and method for the xerographic printing of information cards | Computer technology | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Apr 25, 1995 | 5,410,136 | Apparatus and method for the xerographic printing and magnetic encoding of information cards | Computer technology | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Jan 25, 1994 | 5,281,799 | Apparatus and method for the xerographic printing of information cards | Computer technology | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2019 | 2019/0209935 | ANIMATRONIC TOY | Furniture, games | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Jul 11, 2019 | 2019/0209933 | Child's Toy with Removable Skin | Furniture, games | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Jul 11, 2019 | 2019/0209932 | User Interface for an Animatronic Toy | Furniture, games | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Aug 6, 2009 | 2009/0198526 | PAYMENT OF BENEFITS FOR SURVIVORS OF CERTAIN MEDICAL CONDITIONS | IT methods for management | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
| Jul 31, 2008 | 2008/0184270 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING NOTIFICATION TO SUBSCRIBERS OF REQUESTED EVENTS | Telecommunications | American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (“Aflac”) |
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.