Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
7 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 Cars.com Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
10
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
IT methods for management3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
CARS.COM, LLC its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
9 publishedCARS.COM, LLC its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedDEALER INSPIRE INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Feb 8, 2022 | 11,244,373 | Method, system, and manufacture for personalized vehicle matching based upon user preferences | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Feb 8, 2022 | 11,244,344 | Online marketing method | IT methods for management | DEALER INSPIRE INC. |
| Aug 17, 2021 | 11,093,975 | Integrated location-based message personalization | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Apr 21, 2020 | 10,628,844 | Online marketing method | IT methods for management | DEALER INSPIRE INC. |
| Feb 27, 2018 | 9,906,906 | Integrated geospatial activity reporting | Measurement | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Aug 22, 2017 | 9,743,236 | Integrated geospatial activity reporting | Measurement | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Jun 20, 2017 | 9,686,646 | Integrated geospatial activity reporting | Measurement | CARS.COM, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 16, 2023 | 2023/0368271 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SIGNALS OF LOW-QUALITY LISTINGS | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC · patent 12,026,758 granted from it |
| Jul 6, 2023 | 2023/0214582 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFYING AND EMPHASIZING OF KEY TEXT | Computer technology | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Jul 14, 2022 | 2022/0222688 | METHODOLOGY OF ANALYZING CONSUMER INTENT FROM USER INTERACTION WITH DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS | Computer technology | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Apr 21, 2022 | 2022/0122150 | PERSONALIZED VEHICLE MATCHING BASED UPON USER PREFERENCES | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Jul 30, 2020 | 2020/0242656 | Online Marketing Method | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC · patent 11,244,344 granted from it |
| Mar 26, 2020 | 2020/0098032 | PERSONALIZED VEHICLE MATCHING BASED UPON USER PREFERENCES | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC · patent 11,244,373 granted from it |
| Mar 19, 2020 | 2020/0090244 | VEHICLE INVENTORY AVAILABILITY NOTIFICATION | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC |
| May 30, 2019 | 2019/0164194 | INTEGRATED LOCATION-BASED MESSAGE PERSONALIZATION | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC · patent 11,093,975 granted from it |
| May 9, 2019 | 2019/0139063 | METHODOLOGY OF ANALYZING INCIDENCE AND BEHAVIOR OF CUSTOMER PERSONAS AMONG USERS OF DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS | IT methods for management | CARS.COM, LLC |
| Aug 17, 2017 | 2017/0236147 | Online Marketing Method | IT methods for management | DEALER INSPIRE INC. · patent 10,628,844 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.