Company Analysis

Butterfly Network, Inc. (BFLY)

NYSE: BFLY · X-Ray Apparatus & Tubes & Related Irradiation Apparatus · Burlington, MA · filing with the SEC since 2020
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Patents

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

256 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 Butterfly Network, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
256
211 utility, 45 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
14
Against 23 in 2024 and 51 in 2023
Applications published
332
20 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
5
its own name, a subsidiary
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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Medical technology60
Measurement20
Micro-structural and nano-technology17
Basic communication processes7
Chemical engineering5
Semiconductors5
Computer technology5
Audio-visual technology2
Analysis of biological materials1
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Butterfly Network, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
131 granted
224 published
BFLY OPERATIONS, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
124 granted
63 published
BFLY OPERATIONS, INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
21 published
Butterfly Network, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
15 published
Octiv, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
9 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 25, 202512,478,351Ultrasound device with elevational beamformingMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Sep 30, 202512,426,857Ultrasonic imaging compression methods and apparatusMeasurementBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Sep 2, 202512,402,860Methods and apparatus for performing measurements on an ultrasound imageMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Aug 5, 202512,376,828Methods and systems for coherence imaging in obtaining ultrasound imagesMeasurementBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Jul 29, 202512,369,886Ultrasound probe having three configurable buttonsMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Jun 17, 202512,329,584Methods and apparatuses for collection of ultrasound dataMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Apr 8, 202512,269,061Bottom electrode via structures for micromachined ultrasonic transducer devicesMicro-structural and nano-technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Apr 1, 202512,263,506Anti-stiction bottom cavity surface for micromachined ultrasonic transducer devicesMicro-structural and nano-technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Mar 11, 202512,246,348Capacitive Micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) having non-uniform pedestalsMeasurementBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Mar 11, 202512,245,888Methods and apparatuses for monitoring fetal heartbeat and uterine contraction signalsMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 11, 20252025/0375186METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MEASUREMENTS ON AN ULTRASOUND IMAGEMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0352179METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COHERENCE IMAGING IN OBTAINING ULTRASOUND IMAGESMeasurementBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0352175ULTRASOUND PROBE HAVING THREE CONFIGURABLE BUTTONSMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Oct 9, 20252025/0312013METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR COLLECTION OF ULTRASOUND DATAMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Oct 9, 20252025/0312011POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND INTERFACEMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Oct 2, 20252025/0302440Method and System for Acoustic Crosstalk SuppressionMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Sep 25, 20252025/0300037THERMAL DISSIPATION STRUCTURES FOR ULTRASOUND PROBESMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Jul 17, 20252025/0229292ANTI-STICTION BOTTOM CAVITY SURFACE FOR MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER DEVICESMicro-structural and nano-technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Jun 26, 20252025/0204888METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUISITION OF PATIENT INFORMATION FOR ULTRASOUND SCANS VIA BARCODE EXTRACTIONMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Jun 26, 20252025/0204886METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR MONITORING FETAL HEARTBEAT AND UTERINE CONTRACTION SIGNALSMedical technologyBFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 25 · Micro-structural and nano-technology 7 · Basic communication processes 4 · Chemical engineering 2 · Computer technology 1 · Measurement 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.

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