Company Analysis

First Advantage Corporation (FA)

Nasdaq: FA · Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · Atlanta, GA · filing with the SEC since 2003
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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 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 First Advantage Corporation’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 2 in 2023
Applications published
5
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
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 technology2
Digital communication1
Audio-visual technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
FIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
5 published
STERLING INFOSYSTEMS, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Names not counted (2)
Verify Limited
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in MU. 0 granted and 5 published under it are not counted.
Verify Limited
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in MU. 0 granted and 4 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Sep 3, 202412,081,850Apparatus for fastening an imaging device at a predetermined arrangement for image capture and detecting regions of interest in an image using image processingAudio-visual technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION
Jan 24, 202311,562,448Device and method for performing validation and authentication of a physical structure or physical objectDigital communicationFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION
Jan 10, 202311,551,692Digital assistantComputer technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION
Jul 27, 202111,074,911Digital assistantComputer technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION
Feb 6, 20189,886,524System and method for providing a report of generally available informationComputer technologySTERLING INFOSYSTEMS, INC.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Feb 16, 20232023/0050987APPARATUS FOR FASTENING AN IMAGING DEVICE AT A PREDETERMINED ARRANGEMENT FOR IMAGE CAPTURE AND DETECTING REGIONS OF INTEREST IN AN IMAGE USING IMAGE PROCESSINGAudio-visual technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION · patent 12,081,850 granted from it
Apr 14, 20222022/0115013DIGITAL ASSISTANTComputer technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION · patent 11,551,692 granted from it
Mar 7, 20192019/0074006DIGITAL ASSISTANTComputer technologyFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION · patent 11,074,911 granted from it
Oct 27, 20162016/0314546DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING VALIDATION AND AUTHENTICATION OF A PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OR PHYSICAL OBJECTDigital communicationFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION · patent 11,562,448 granted from it
Mar 8, 20072007/0055621Automated method and system for predicting and/or verifying incomeIT methods for managementFIRST ADVANTAGE CORPORATION

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 FA · research, not advice