Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
12 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 Getty Images Holdings, 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
7
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
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.
Under which name3 counted
Getty Images, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedGetty Images (US), Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 publishedGetty Images, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 15, 2019 | 10,445,359 | Method and system for classifying media content | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Mar 26, 2019 | 10,242,089 | Method and system for searching for digital assets | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| May 30, 2017 | 9,665,642 | Automatic identification of digital content related to a block of text, such as a blog entry | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Feb 2, 2016 | 9,251,172 | Method and system for searching for digital assets | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Jan 5, 2016 | 9,229,992 | Automatic identification of digital content related to a block of text, such as a blog entry | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Feb 4, 2014 | 8,644,646 | Automatic identification of digital content related to a block of text, such as a blog entry | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Oct 29, 2013 | 8,571,329 | System and method for searching digital images | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Oct 9, 2012 | 8,285,082 | Automatic identification of digital content related to a block of text, such as a blog entry | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Mar 27, 2012 | 8,144,995 | System and method for searching digital images | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
| Apr 12, 2011 | 7,925,671 | Method and system for automatic cue sheet generation | Audio-visual technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 1, 2016 | 2016/0253411 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT RELATED TO A BLOCK OF TEXT, SUCH AS A BLOG ENTRY | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. · patent 9,665,642 granted from it |
| Sep 1, 2016 | 2016/0253410 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR DIGITAL ASSETS | Computer technology | Getty Images (US), Inc. · patent 10,242,089 granted from it |
| Nov 6, 2014 | 2014/0330820 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT RELATED TO A BLOCK OF TEXT, SUCH AS A BLOG ENTRY | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. · patent 9,229,992 granted from it |
| Jul 17, 2014 | 2014/0201227 | CONTENT-IDENTIFICATION ENGINE BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA | Computer technology | Getty Images (US), Inc. |
| Apr 18, 2013 | 2013/0094760 | AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT RELATED TO A BLOCK OF TEXT, SUCH AS A BLOG ENTRY | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. · patent 8,644,646 granted from it |
| Sep 20, 2012 | 2012/0237119 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING DIGITAL IMAGES | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. · patent 8,571,329 granted from it |
| May 27, 2010 | 2010/0131547 | DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING CUSTOMIZABLE METADATA MODEL FOR ASSET CATALOGING AND PERMISSIONING OF DIGITAL ASSETS, SUCH AS FOR USE WITH DIGITAL IMAGES AND SONGS | Computer technology | Getty Images, Inc. |
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.