Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
31,272 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 Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
31,272
29,356 utility, 1,897 design, 19 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1,973
Against 2,169 in 2024 and 1,948 in 2023
Applications published
25,248
2,050 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
6
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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 technology5,087
Digital communication1,601
Audio-visual technology627
IT methods for management272
Optics197
Measurement184
Telecommunications181
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy145
Semiconductors123
Control54
Handling54
Medical technology43
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
GOOGLE LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 4 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA, printed in JP, printed in IL)
31,270 granted
9,048 publishedGoogle LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 9 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA, printed in CH)
0 granted
16,181 publishedGoogle Inc., a Delaware corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
17 publishedAlphabet, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 publishedAlphabet Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 publishedGOOGLE, INC., a Corporation of the State of California a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
Names not counted (2)
Google LLC
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 5 published under it are not counted.
Google LLC
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | D1,107,723 | Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface | | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | D1,107,673 | Smartphone | | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,610 | Barring factors in wireless communications systems | Digital communication | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,589 | Adaptive phase-changing device sharing and handover | Digital communication | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,451 | Earbud-to-earbud cross-acknowledgement and communication relay | Audio-visual technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,513,053 | Heterogeneous graph clustering using a pointwise mutual information criterion | Digital communication | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,512,902 | Flexible frequency band pairing for satellite communications | Telecommunications | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,512,124 | System and method for performing a rewind operation with a mobile image capture device | Audio-visual technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,512,095 | Unsupervised data selection via discrete speech representation for automatic speech recognition | Computer technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,512,088 | Method and system for user-interface adaptation of text-to-speech synthesis | Computer technology | GOOGLE LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392926 | Enhancement of Quality of Service for Communications-Intensive Applications by Automatically Associating the Applications with Premium Access | Digital communication | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392918 | NOTIFYING USERS OF REQUESTS FOR SECRET IDENTIFIERS | Digital communication | Google LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392735 | VIDEO CODING WITH GUIDED MACHINE LEARNING RESTORATION | Audio-visual technology | Google LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0392725 | Circular-Shift Transformation For Image And Video Coding | Audio-visual technology | Google LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0391411 | Multi-User Warm Words | Computer technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0391399 | Aligning Speech and Text Representations without Sampling | Computer technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0391214 | CONTEXT-TAGGED ACCESS CREDENTIALS FOR PHYSICAL ACCESS CONTROL | Control | Google LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390998 | GENERATIVE PHOTO UNCROPPING AND RECOMPOSITION | Computer technology | GOOGLE LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390972 | ZOOM AGNOSTIC WATERMARK EXTRACTION | Computer technology | Google LLC |
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390719 | GENERATING COMPUTING PLATFORM DASHBOARDS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Computer technology | Google LLC |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 2,635 · Digital communication 640 · Audio-visual technology 315 · Optics 122 · Measurement 100 · Telecommunications 91.
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.