Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
27 patents granted to the 5 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 The Brink's Company’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
27
25 utility, 2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and 3 in 2023
Applications published
14
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
5
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'02'04'06'07'09'11'13'14'15'16'18'21'22'23'24
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
Control5
IT methods for management1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedBrink's Incorporated its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedBrink's France a subsidiary
FR, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedBrink's Network, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
7 publishedBrink's France S.A. a subsidiary
FR, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedNames not counted (1)
I T S SAS
Only generic words.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 26, 2024 | 11,941,931 | Self-service modular drop safes with technology shelf replacement capability | Control | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Oct 31, 2023 | 11,804,090 | Self-service modular drop safes with door replacement / safe type changing capability | Control | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Jan 3, 2023 | 11,544,982 | Self-service modular drop safes with messenger access capability | Control | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Jan 3, 2023 | 11,544,981 | Self-service modular drop safes with deposit creation capability | Control | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Jun 14, 2022 | 11,361,374 | Computerized system having a central process facilitator in communication with safes and operating process thereof | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Nov 2, 2021 | 11,164,412 | Self-service modular drop safes | Control | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Mar 6, 2018 | 9,911,108 | Process of facilitating financial transactions at point-of-sale employing electronic drop safes and point-of-sale terminals | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Nov 15, 2016 | 9,495,705 | Process of and system for facilitating cash collections deposits and deposit tracking | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| May 17, 2016 | D756,198 | Padlock bumper | | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
| Sep 30, 2014 | 8,844,804 | Process of and system for facilitating cash collections deposits and deposit tracking | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2021 | 2021/0358240 | SELF-SERVICE MODULAR DROP SAFES WITH MESSENGER ACCESS CAPABILITY | Control | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,544,982 granted from it |
| Nov 11, 2021 | 2021/0350645 | SELF-SERVICE MODULAR DROP SAFES WITH DOOR REPLACEMENT / SAFE TYPE CHANGING CAPABILITY | Control | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,804,090 granted from it |
| Nov 11, 2021 | 2021/0350644 | SELF-SERVICE MODULAR DROP SAFES WITH TECHNOLOGY SHELF REPLACEMENT CAPABILITY | Control | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,941,931 granted from it |
| Nov 11, 2021 | 2021/0350643 | SELF-SERVICE MODULAR DROP SAFES WITH DEPOSIT CREATION CAPABILITY | Control | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,544,981 granted from it |
| Mar 11, 2021 | 2021/0074101 | SELF-SERVICE MODULAR DROP SAFES | Control | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,164,412 granted from it |
| Oct 11, 2018 | 2018/0293649 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM HAVING A CENTRAL PROCESS FACILITATOR IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAFES AND OPERATING PROCESS THEREOF | IT methods for management | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 11,361,374 granted from it |
| Aug 13, 2015 | 2015/0228013 | PROCESS OF AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CASH COLLECTIONS DEPOSITS AND DEPOSIT TRACKING | IT methods for management | Brink's Network, Inc. · patent 9,495,705 granted from it |
| Jun 4, 2015 | 2015/0154580 | SYSTEM FOR AND PROCESS OF FACILITATING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS AT POINT-OF-SALE EMPLOYING ELECTRONIC DROP SAFES AND POINT-OF-SALE TERMINALS | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED · patent 9,911,108 granted from it |
| Feb 28, 2013 | 2013/0054391 | SYSTEM FOR AND PROCESS OF FACILITATING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS AT POINT-OF-SALE EMPLOYING ELECTRONIC DROP SAFES AND POINT-OF-SALE TERMINALS | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED · patent 8,645,214 granted from it |
| Feb 10, 2011 | 2011/0035316 | PROCESS OF AND SYSTEM FOR ADVANCING CREDIT FOR CASH COLLECTIONS | IT methods for management | BRINK'S NETWORK, INCORPORATED |
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.