Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
36 patents granted to the 6 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 American Financial Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
36
36 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
Against 1 in 2024 and 8 in 2023
Applications published
19
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
6
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 technology14
Digital communication3
IT methods for management1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedFirst American Financial Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
8 publishedData Trace Information Services, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedFIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedFirst American Data Tree LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedFirst American Title Insurance Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 publishedNames not counted (3)
FCT Holdings Company Ltd.
Most of its patents print AU; this name counts in CA. 0 granted and 3 published under it are not counted.
FCT Holdings Company Ltd.
Most of its patents print AU; this name counts in CA. 0 granted and 3 published under it are not counted.
First American Data Co., LLC
Only generic words.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 7, 2025 | 12,437,569 | AI-based detection of contextual class description in document images | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| May 13, 2025 | 12,300,008 | Sensitive pattern recognition of images, numbers and text | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Mar 18, 2025 | 12,253,981 | Distributed ledger systems and methods for importing, accessing, verifying, and comparing documents | Digital communication | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Feb 4, 2025 | 12,217,525 | Multi-modal ensemble deep learning for start page classification of document image file including multiple different documents | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Mar 19, 2024 | 11,935,316 | Multi-modal ensemble deep learning for start page classification of document image file including multiple different documents | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 11,836,816 | Systems and methods for verification of property records | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Oct 17, 2023 | 11,790,680 | System and method for automated selection of best description from descriptions extracted from a plurality of data sources using numeric comparison and textual centrality measure | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Sep 5, 2023 | 11,748,151 | Systems and methods for editing, assigning, controlling, and monitoring bots that automate tasks, including natural language processing | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
| Jul 25, 2023 | 11,710,203 | Apparatus and method for generating title products | IT methods for management | FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY |
| May 30, 2023 | 11,663,408 | OCR error correction | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jun 8, 2023 | 2023/0177021 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPORTING, ACCESSING, VERIFYING, AND COMPARING DOCUMENTS | Digital communication | First American Financial Corporation · patent 12,253,981 granted from it |
| Mar 25, 2021 | 2021/0090189 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING BLOCKCHAINS TO RECORD, MANAGE, AND TRANSFER OWNERSHIP RIGHTS TO LAND TITLES | Digital communication | First American Financial Corporation · patent 11,593,901 granted from it |
| Feb 4, 2021 | 2021/0035245 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TITLE PRODUCTS | IT methods for management | First American Title Insurance Company · patent 11,710,203 granted from it |
| Dec 17, 2020 | 2020/0394243 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT DATA EXTRACTION, DATA INDEXING, DATA SEARCHING AND DATA FILTERING | Computer technology | First American Financial Corporation · patent 11,386,177 granted from it |
| Nov 5, 2020 | 2020/0349125 | DISTRIBUTED LEDGER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPORTING, ACCESSING, VERIFYING, AND COMPARING DOCUMENTS | Digital communication | First American Financial Corporation · patent 11,567,904 granted from it |
| Jul 23, 2020 | 2020/0234386 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING BLOCKCHAINS TO RECORD, MANAGE, AND TRANSFER OWNERSHIP RIGHTS TO LAND TITLES | Digital communication | First American Financial Corporation · patent 10,878,522 granted from it |
| Sep 26, 2019 | 2019/0295196 | COMPARABILITY SCORE USING MULTI-CHARACTERISTIC DIMENSION REDUCTION METHOD | IT methods for management | First American Financial Corporation |
| Sep 19, 2019 | 2019/0286898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTION AND SEARCHING | Computer technology | First American Financial Corporation · patent 10,783,367 granted from it |
| May 9, 2019 | 2019/0139167 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING TITLE PRODUCTS | IT methods for management | First American Title Insurance Company · patent 10,846,807 granted from it |
| Dec 31, 2015 | 2015/0379346 | PROPERTY RECORD DOCUMENT DATA VERIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Computer technology | FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION · patent 9,639,751 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.