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The Walt Disney Company (DIS)

NYSE: DIS · Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation · Burbank, CA · filing with the SEC since 2018
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

3,789 patents granted to the 20 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 The Walt Disney Company’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
3,789
3,584 utility, 198 design, 6 reissue, 1 statutory invention registration, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
143
Against 124 in 2024 and 162 in 2023
Applications published
3,297
162 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
20
a subsidiary, its own 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 technology355
Digital communication234
Audio-visual technology90
Furniture, games61
Optics29
IT methods for management20
Control14
Transport9
Handling8
Telecommunications7
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy6
Measurement3
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name20 counted
Disney Enterprises, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
2,798 granted
1,475 published
Disney Enterprises, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
0 granted
1,263 published
PIXAR a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
338 granted
144 published
HULU, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
256 granted
112 published
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
209 granted
85 published
HULU, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
136 published
The Walt Disney Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
104 granted
3 published
Lucasfilm Ltd. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
42 granted
1 published
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
22 granted
4 published
Pixar a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
25 published
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
16 published
LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
16 published
BAMTECH, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
9 granted
1 published
Marvel Characters, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 granted
1 published
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
7 published
BAMTECH, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
5 published
FX Networks, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 granted
1 published
American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
FX NETWORKS, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Names not counted (2)
ABC, Inc.
Most of its patents print IT; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
ABC, Inc.
Most of its patents print KR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,511,922Automated content analysis and annotationComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 23, 202512,506,853See-through operator awareness tool using synthesized viewpointsAudio-visual technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 23, 202512,506,842Uncertainty-guided frame interpolation for video renderingComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 23, 202512,505,598Hair editing techniques for animationComputer technologyPIXAR
Dec 23, 202512,505,183Digital watermarking-based digital asset ownership verificationDigital communicationDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 23, 202512,505,110Dynamic matching based on dynamic criteria and scoringComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 16, 202512,500,995Video deinterlacing using bidirectional temporal informationComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 16, 202512,500,947Generation of unique presentation of media contentDigital communicationHULU, LLC
Dec 9, 202512,491,765Vehicle entertainment interface system and methodTransportDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 2, 202512,488,524Synthesizing sequences of 3D geometries for movement-based performanceComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0390700Context-Based Social Agent InteractionComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 18, 20252025/0386026VIDEO ENCODER AUTOTUNING OF PARAMETERSAudio-visual technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0373898CONTENT NAVIGATION AND PERSONALIZATIONDigital communicationDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0373782SYSTEM AND METHOD TO REMOTELY CONTROL AND TEST MEDIA PLAYER DEVICESDigital communicationDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0372116Cross-Language Voice Similarity AnalysisComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0371826VOLUMETRIC NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER MASKINGComputer technologyPixar
Dec 4, 20252025/0371565REACH AND FREQUENCY FORECAST MODELSIT methods for managementDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0371151AUTOMATED COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY SCANNING SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED CODE REPOSITORIESComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Dec 4, 20252025/0370974APPLIED PROGRAMMATIC DATA LAKE ANALYSISComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
Nov 27, 20252025/0363650ZERO-SHOT MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELSComputer technologyDisney Enterprises, Inc.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 161 · Digital communication 63 · Audio-visual technology 25 · Furniture, games 11 · IT methods for management 10 · Control 9.

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.

SI Assistanton DIS · research, not advice