Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
778 patents granted to the 7 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 Cognex Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
778
764 utility, 13 design, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
17
Against 21 in 2024 and 39 in 2023
Applications published
407
14 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
7
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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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 technology76
Audio-visual technology26
Optics16
Measurement14
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy5
Handling3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name7 counted
Cognex Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
154 publishedCognex Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
214 publishedCognex Technology and Investment LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
7 publishedMoritex Corporation a subsidiary
JP, as the owner printed on each patent
26 publishedSAC SIRIUS ADVANCED CYBERNETICS GMBH a subsidiary
DE, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedCognex Technology and Investment LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 publishedCognex Vision Inspection System (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in CN
1 publishedNames not counted (1)
MV Ltd.
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in HK. 3 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,987 | Calibration-less structured light measurement | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,196 | System and method for reduced-speckle laser line generation | Optics | Cognex Corporation |
| Nov 4, 2025 | D1,101,015 | Imaging device with cover plate | | Cognex Corporation |
| Oct 21, 2025 | D1,099,200 | Imaging device with housing | | Cognex Corporation |
| Oct 21, 2025 | 12,450,455 | Machine vision system and method with hybrid zoom optical assembly | Audio-visual technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,435,968 | Multiple channel locating | Measurement | Cognex Corporation |
| Jul 22, 2025 | 12,367,361 | System and method for auto-focusing a vision system camera on barcodes | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,361,617 | Systems and methods for stitching sequential images of an object | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,361,100 | System and method for applying deep learning tools to machine vision and interface for the same | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,358,145 | System and method for three-dimensional calibration of a vision system | Measurement | Cognex Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 9, 2025 | 2025/0315980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMISSIONING A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM | Pharmaceuticals | Cognex Corporation |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0308068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FIELD CALIBRATION OF A VISION SYSTEM | Audio-visual technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0301120 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC TESTING OF A MACHINE VISION SYSTEM | Audio-visual technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Sep 4, 2025 | 2025/0278586 | MACHINE VISION SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH HYBRID ZOOM OPTICAL ASSEMBLY | Audio-visual technology | Cognex Corporation · patent 12,450,455 granted from it |
| Aug 28, 2025 | 2025/0272994 | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING A PREFERRED TRANSFORMATION TYPE FOR 3D IMAGE PROCESSING USING MACHINE LEARNING | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 2025/0209288 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TUNING SYMBOL READERS | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| Jun 19, 2025 | 2025/0200868 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF MULTIPLE SIDES OF AN OBJECT | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| May 22, 2025 | 2025/0166269 | Systems and Methods for Stitching Sequential Images of an Object | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| May 22, 2025 | 2025/0166158 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AND MEASURING SHAPES OF OBJECTS HAVING CURVED SURFACES WITH A VISION SYSTEM | Computer technology | Cognex Corporation |
| May 1, 2025 | 2025/0139785 | EASY LINE FINDER BASED ON DYNAMIC TIME WARPING METHOD | Computer technology | Cognex Vision Inspection System (Shanghai) Co.,Ltd. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 20 · Optics 4 · Measurement 3 · Audio-visual technology 3 · Pharmaceuticals 1.
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.