Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
0 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 Black Hills Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
0
by type: not read, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
its holding company
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 name1 counted
Black Hills Development Corp., LLC its holding company
US, as the owner printed on each patent; a holding company under the name BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/
1 publishedNames not counted (2)
Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
PatentsView's organization Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC is another company: its 62 patents print Minneapolis, Minnesota and cover patent analysis software, the newest, Patent mapping, granted Dec 23, 2025. BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/ files from South Dakota, and nothing in its record ties it to this owner, whose name only adds a patent-holding word to the company's.. 0 granted and 104 published under it are not counted.
Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC
PatentsView's organization Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC is another company: its 62 patents print Minneapolis, Minnesota and cover patent analysis software, the newest, Patent mapping, granted Dec 23, 2025. BLACK HILLS CORP /SD/ files from South Dakota, and nothing in its record ties it to this owner, whose name only adds a patent-holding word to the company's.. 62 granted and 27 published under it are not counted.
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.