Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
268 patents granted to the 3 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 Box, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
268
261 utility, 7 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
15
Against 23 in 2024 and 26 in 2023
Applications published
292
13 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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 technology73
Digital communication42
IT methods for management4
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Box, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 5 more under the same name are not counted (printed in IM, printed in JP, printed in AU)
268 granted
205 publishedBox, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in IM)
0 granted
83 publishedBox.net, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,138 | Unified object approach to storing and displaying e-signature processing events | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,050 | Methods and systems for dynamic recovery with adaptive latency injection | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Dec 16, 2025 | 12,500,961 | Multizone migration services | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,488,142 | Obtaining trusted e-signatures | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 12,432,239 | Detecting anomalous downloads | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Sep 16, 2025 | 12,417,311 | Detection of personally identifiable information | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Aug 26, 2025 | 12,401,648 | Establishing user device trust levels | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Aug 12, 2025 | 12,388,808 | Security and governance policies in electronic signature systems | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Aug 12, 2025 | 12,386,475 | System and methods for configuring event-based automation in cloud-based collaboration platforms | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,363,124 | Handling collaboration and governance activities throughout the lifecycle of auto-generated content objects | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0384033 | METADATA QUERY MECHANISM | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0358138 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CURATION OF CONTENT ITEMS OF A USER GROUP IN A CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 2025/0280032 | THREAT DETECTION AND REMEDIATION | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| Aug 21, 2025 | 2025/0267129 | PREDICTING USER-FILE INTERACTIONS | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Aug 14, 2025 | 2025/0258655 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SOFTWARE CODE GENERATION | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| May 29, 2025 | 2025/0175489 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| May 22, 2025 | 2025/0168191 | ACQUIRING ELECTRONIC-BASED SIGNATURES | Digital communication | Box, Inc. |
| May 15, 2025 | 2025/0156563 | CALCULATING AND REPORTING COLLABORATION SYSTEM RISKS | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0117412 | ISOLATING PASSAGES FROM CONTEXT-LADEN COLLABORATION SYSTEM CONTENT OBJECTS | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
| Apr 10, 2025 | 2025/0117406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR METADATA EXTRACTION | Computer technology | Box, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 21 · Digital communication 18.
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.