Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
12 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 Exponent, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
12
12 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, a former name
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.
Under which name2 counted
Exponent, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedThe Failure Group, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 3, 2012 | 8,147,163 | Tire rapid entanglement and arresting device | Civil engineering | Exponent, Inc. |
| May 3, 2011 | 7,936,274 | Shield for radio frequency ID tag or contactless smart card | Computer technology | Exponent, Inc. |
| May 31, 2005 | 6,899,539 | Infantry wearable information and weapon system | Other special machines | Exponent, Inc. |
| Nov 25, 2003 | 6,651,482 | Apparatus and method for vehicle rollover crash testing | Measurement | Exponent, Inc. |
| Nov 11, 2003 | 6,643,969 | Optical sight apparatus for firing from cover positions | Other special machines | Exponent, Inc. |
| Aug 19, 2003 | 6,606,813 | Weapon accessory mounting apparatus | Other special machines | Exponent, Inc. |
| Feb 26, 2002 | 6,349,588 | System and method for performing bulge testing of films, coatings and/or layers | Measurement | Exponent, Inc. |
| Nov 27, 2001 | 6,321,594 | System and method for performing bulge testing of films, coatings and/or layers | Measurement | Exponent, Inc. |
| Jul 31, 2001 | 6,267,011 | Method and apparatus for determining the true stress and true strain behavior of a ductile polymer | Measurement | Exponent, Inc. |
| Apr 18, 2000 | 6,050,138 | System and method for performing bulge testing of films, coatings and/or layers | Measurement | Exponent, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
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.