Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
20 patents granted to the 3 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 AstroNova, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
20
20 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
4
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a former name, 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.
Under which name3 counted
ASTRO-MED, INC. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 4 more under the same name are not counted (printed in GB)
3 publishedAstro Machine Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedAstroNova, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 17, 2019 | 10,415,670 | Worm drive | Mechanical elements | AstroNova, Inc. |
| Dec 23, 2008 | 7,468,814 | Algorithm for controlling half toning process | Telecommunications | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Aug 14, 2007 | 7,256,805 | Method of adjusting strobe length in a thermal printer to reduce effects of changes in media transport speed | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Jul 31, 2007 | 7,249,903 | Assembly for feeding a continuous roll of web material to a sheet fed printing device | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Nov 6, 2001 | 6,313,861 | Thermal transfer printer with print film saving system and print media tensioning system | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| May 15, 2001 | 6,232,995 | Color printer having a printing film conserving mechanism | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Nov 14, 2000 | 6,145,436 | Label transport shuttle for a printing device | Handling | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Feb 29, 2000 | 6,031,555 | Color printer having a printing film conserving mechanism | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Oct 26, 1999 | 5,973,711 | Two-sided color printing apparatus | Textile and paper machines | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Jun 23, 1998 | 5,769,408 | Apparatus for feeding sheets | Handling | Astro Machine Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 15, 2018 | 2018/0328477 | WORM DRIVE | Mechanical elements | AstroNova, Inc. · patent 10,415,670 granted from it |
| Sep 13, 2012 | 2012/0229863 | IDLE COLOR SEPARATION ALGORITHM | Computer technology | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Nov 3, 2011 | 2011/0268489 | Linear Roll Tensioning System for Continuous Web Printer | Handling | ASTRO-MED, INC. |
| Aug 10, 2006 | 2006/0176517 | Algorithm for controlling half toning process | Telecommunications | ASTRO-MED, INC. · patent 7,468,814 granted from it |
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.