Company Analysis

Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. (CFR)

NYSE: CFR · National Commercial Banks · San Antonio, TX · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.7
◀ Past 3.7● Present 6.0▶ Future 4.6

Patents

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

2 patents granted to the 2 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 Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
2
2 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
3
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'16'17
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
2 published
CULLEN/FROST BANKERS, INC. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Names not counted (1)
Carton Service Corporation
Not the family's name, under a bank, a property company or a blank-check company.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Oct 10, 20179,787,689Network authentication of multiple profile accesses from a single remote deviceDigital communicationCullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Jul 12, 20169,391,982Network authentication of multiple profile accesses from a single remote deviceDigital communicationCullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 2, 20172017/0316393System, Apparatus And Method For Linking Financial Accounts To A Subscription Service And Waiving Select Fees Of Those Linked Financial AccountsIT methods for managementCULLEN/FROST BANKERS, INC.
Oct 5, 20172017/0288873Network Authentication Of Multiple Profile Accesses From A Single Remote DeviceDigital communicationCullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Nov 3, 20162016/0323290Network Authentication Of Multiple Profile Accesses From A Single Remote DeviceDigital communicationCullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. · patent 9,787,689 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.

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