Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
14 patents 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 Brown-Forman Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
14
7 utility, 7 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
2
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedJack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 7, 2006 | 7,008,652 | Method for production of a flavorless malt base | Food chemistry | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Jan 14, 2003 | 6,506,430 | Oak aged alcoholic beverage extract and accelerated whisky maturation method | Food chemistry | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Feb 5, 2002 | 6,344,226 | Process for producing an extract of an accelerated oak aged alcoholic concentrate | Food chemistry | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Oct 17, 2000 | 6,132,788 | Oak aged alcoholic beverage extract | Food chemistry | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Aug 8, 1995 | 5,439,701 | Fiber-containing food product and process for producing it from a portion of by-product of alcohol production process | Food chemistry | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| May 9, 1995 | 5,412,859 | Method for joining a booklet having an elastic band around a neck of a container | Handling | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Sep 7, 1993 | 5,241,743 | Neck booklet machine | Handling | BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION |
| Sep 22, 1981 | D260,825 | Sofa | | Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. |
| Sep 15, 1981 | D260,711 | End table | | Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. |
| Aug 18, 1981 | D260,211 | Bookcase | | Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop., Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
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.