Barnes & Noble Education, Inc (BNED)
NYSE: BNED · Retail-Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores · Basking Ridge, NJ · filing with the SEC since 2015
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 202643 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 Barnes & Noble Education, Inc’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
43
43 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
10
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology8
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name1 counted
BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
10 published
Names not counted (1)
MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2023 | 11,768,589 | Digital flash cards including links to digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| May 3, 2022 | 11,320,931 | Swipe-based confirmation for touch sensitive devices | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Dec 21, 2021 | 11,204,687 | Visual thumbnail, scrubber for digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Sep 21, 2021 | 11,126,346 | Digital flash card techniques | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Sep 14, 2021 | 11,120,203 | Editing annotations of paginated digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Jun 8, 2021 | 11,029,826 | Digital flash cards including links to digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Apr 13, 2021 | 10,976,856 | Swipe-based confirmation for touch sensitive devices | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Feb 9, 2021 | 10,915,698 | Multi-purpose tool for interacting with paginated digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Jul 21, 2020 | 10,719,914 | Universal digital content zooming techniques | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Apr 14, 2020 | 10,620,796 | Visual thumbnail scrubber for digital content | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2021 | 2021/0240336 | DIGITAL FLASH CARDS INCLUDING LINKS TO DIGITAL CONTENT | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,768,589 granted from it |
| Jul 29, 2021 | 2021/0232255 | SWIPE-BASED CONFIRMATION FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,320,931 granted from it |
| Jul 30, 2020 | 2020/0241715 | VISUAL THUMBNAIL SCRUBBER FOR DIGITAL CONTENT | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,204,687 granted from it |
| Apr 9, 2020 | 2020/0110513 | SWIPE-BASED CONFIRMATION FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 10,976,856 granted from it |
| Mar 12, 2020 | 2020/0081600 | DIGITAL FLASH CARD TECHNIQUES | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,126,346 granted from it |
| Oct 10, 2019 | 2019/0311026 | MERGING ANNOTATIONS OF PAGINATED DIGITAL CONTENT | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,120,203 granted from it |
| Aug 15, 2019 | 2019/0251659 | UNIVERSAL DIGITAL CONTENT ZOOMING TECHNIQUES | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 10,719,914 granted from it |
| Jul 26, 2018 | 2018/0210631 | DIGITAL FLASH CARDS INCLUDING LINKS TO DIGITAL CONTENT | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 11,029,826 granted from it |
| Apr 12, 2018 | 2018/0101509 | FILTERING AND SEARCHING ANNOTATIONS OF PAGINATED DIGITAL CONTENT | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC |
| Jul 20, 2017 | 2017/0205963 | SWIPE-BASED CONFIRMATION FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES | Computer technology | BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS, LLC · patent 10,503,346 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.