Company Analysis

Cencora, Inc. (COR)

NYSE: COR · Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries · Conshohocken, PA · filing with the SEC since 2001
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Patents

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

5 patents granted to the 4 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 Cencora, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
5
5 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
12
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'06'07'12'13'14'15'17'19'24'25
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
Medical technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
AMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
3 published
ASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
3 published
Amerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
5 published
Amerisourcebergen Drug Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
1 published
Names not counted (1)
AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORP
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
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 19, 202412,144,783Dose tracking deviceMedical technologyASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC
Aug 13, 201910,380,543System and method for pharmaceutical management and trackingComputer technologyAMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC
Sep 19, 20179,767,429Product inventory information sharing system and methodIT methods for managementASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC
Oct 9, 20128,285,607System and method for pharmaceutical management and trackingComputer technologyAMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC
Aug 21, 20077,258,241Method and apparatus for facilitating bar-code scanning of rack contents using rack column mounted displayAudio-visual technologyAmerisourcebergen Drug Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jan 30, 20252025/0032363DOSE TRACKING DEVICEMedical technologyASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC
Oct 31, 20242024/0358598DOSE TRACKING DEVICEMedical technologyASD Specialty Healthcare, LLC · patent 12,144,783 granted from it
Dec 3, 20152015/0347712SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION AND TRACKINGMedical technologyAMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC
Oct 1, 20152015/0278755SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND TRACKINGComputer technologyAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc.
Oct 1, 20152015/0278754SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND TRACKINGComputer technologyAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc.
Oct 1, 20152015/0278461SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND TRACKINGComputer technologyAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc. · patent 10,380,543 granted from it
Jan 15, 20152015/0019251PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN CLINICAL TRIALSComputer technologyAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc.
Sep 25, 20142014/0288701PRODUCT INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODIT methods for managementAmerisourcebergen Specialty Group, Inc.
Jun 19, 20142014/0172651PRODUCT INVENTORY INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM AND METHODIT methods for managementAMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC · patent 9,767,429 granted from it
Feb 14, 20132013/0041784SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHARMACEUTICAL MANAGEMENT AND TRACKINGComputer technologyAMERISOURCEBERGEN SPECIALTY GROUP, LLC
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 2.

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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