Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
18 patents granted to the 3 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 FiEE, Inc’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
18
15 utility, 3 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
8
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedMinim Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
5 publishedMinim 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 |
|---|
| Mar 28, 2023 | 11,616,793 | System and method for device context and device security | Digital communication | Minim Inc. |
| Jun 29, 2021 | 11,050,631 | System and method for onboarding in a Wi-Fi mesh network | Digital communication | Minim Inc. |
| Jun 10, 2014 | 8,750,290 | Method and apparatus for ensuring accessibility to emergency service via VoIP or via PSTN | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Jun 5, 2012 | 8,194,651 | Method and apparatus for user authentication | Digital communication | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Sep 22, 2009 | 7,593,389 | Distinctive dial tone for a VoIP call | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Nov 8, 2005 | 6,963,640 | Memory architecture for telephone dialer | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Sep 13, 2005 | 6,944,774 | Data flow control unit | Digital communication | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Mar 23, 2004 | 6,711,238 | Parallel-connected dialing signal transmission inhibiting device for data transfer over a telephone link | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Sep 11, 2001 | 6,289,087 | Modem with ring detection/modem processing capability | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
| Jun 27, 2000 | 6,081,587 | Modem with ring detection/modem processing capability | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jun 8, 2023 | 2023/0179619 | System and Method for Device Context and Device Security | Digital communication | Minim Inc. |
| Jun 2, 2022 | 2022/0174473 | System and Method for Registration During Device Onboarding | Digital communication | Minim Inc. |
| Aug 26, 2021 | 2021/0266989 | System and Method for Onboarding in a Wi-Fi Mesh Network | Digital communication | Minim Inc. |
| Dec 24, 2020 | 2020/0403875 | System and Method for Onboarding in a Wi-Fi Mesh Network | Digital communication | Minim Inc. · patent 11,050,631 granted from it |
| Oct 3, 2019 | 2019/0306182 | System and Method for Device Context and Device Security | Digital communication | Minim Inc. · patent 11,616,793 granted from it |
| Mar 9, 2006 | 2006/0050688 | Method and apparatus for user authentication | Digital communication | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. · patent 8,194,651 granted from it |
| Mar 9, 2006 | 2006/0050682 | Distinctive dial tone for a VoIP call | Telecommunications | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. · patent 7,593,389 granted from it |
| Oct 4, 2001 | 2001/0027526 | Data flow control unit | Digital communication | ZOOM Telephonics, Inc. · patent 6,944,774 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.