Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
38 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 Deluxe Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
38
34 utility, 4 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
17
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
7
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'07'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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 management4
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name7 counted
Deluxe Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedDeluxe Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
7 publishedDeluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedSafeguard Business Systems, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedDeluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 publishedWAUSAU FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedWAUSAU FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 publishedNames not counted (1)
Research Development and Manufacturing Corporation
Only generic words.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jul 23, 2024 | 12,045,784 | Aggregation and processing of check-based payments | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Mar 8, 2022 | 11,270,270 | Trusted secure electronic payment processing platform | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Jan 11, 2022 | 11,222,313 | System and method for managing financial transactions based on electronic check data | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Sep 28, 2021 | 11,132,652 | System and method for managing financial transactions based on electronic check data | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Jun 23, 2020 | 10,692,061 | System and method for switching of financial accounts between financial institutions | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Jun 9, 2020 | 10,679,224 | Method and apparatus for quick response codes for negotiable instruments | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Sep 10, 2019 | 10,410,214 | System and method for financial transaction validation | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Aug 27, 2019 | 10,391,789 | Negotiable instruments with intelligent microprint | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Apr 30, 2019 | D846,873 | Trifold check wallet | | Deluxe Corporation |
| Apr 30, 2019 | D846,872 | Folded check wallet | | Deluxe Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 2, 2023 | 2023/0066909 | AGGREGATION AND PROCESSING OF CHECK-BASED PAYMENTS | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation · patent 12,045,784 granted from it |
| Feb 11, 2021 | 2021/0042714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPOSITING ITEMS AND AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Oct 8, 2020 | 2020/0320485 | AGGREGATION AND PROCESSING OF CHECK-BASED PAYMENTS | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Apr 30, 2020 | 2020/0134619 | System and Method for Financial Transaction Validation | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Apr 9, 2020 | 2020/0111063 | TRUSTED SECURE ELECTRONIC PAYMENT PROCESSING PLATFORM | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation · patent 11,270,270 granted from it |
| Aug 8, 2019 | 2019/0244180 | NEGOTIATED INSTRUMENTS WITH VERIFIED PAYEE ENDORSEMENT FOR MOBILE DEPOSITS | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation |
| Jun 20, 2019 | 2019/0190977 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION AND INSERTION OF ANALYTIC TRACKING CODES | Digital communication | Deluxe Corporation |
| Aug 23, 2018 | 2018/0240081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS BASED ON ELECTRONIC CHECK DATA | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. · patent 11,132,652 granted from it |
| Aug 24, 2017 | 2017/0243174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPOSITING ITEMS AND AUTHORIZING TRANSACTIONS | IT methods for management | Deluxe Small Business Sales, Inc. |
| Aug 3, 2017 | 2017/0217208 | NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS WITH INTELLIGENT MICROPRINT | IT methods for management | Deluxe Corporation · patent 10,391,789 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.