Company Analysis

Genuine Parts Company (GPC)

NYSE: GPC · Wholesale-Motor Vehicle Supplies & New Parts · Atlanta, GA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.4
◀ Past 7.0● Present 4.9▶ Future 4.7

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

2 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 Genuine Parts Company’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
2
2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
2
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'15'18'20'24
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name3 counted
Genuine Parts Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 published
Genuine Parts Company its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Motion Industries, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Names not counted (2)
UAP INC.
Most of its patents print GB; this name counts in CA. 3 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
UAP INC.
Most of its patents print GB; this name counts in CA. 0 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Feb 4, 2020D874,486Display screen with a transitional graphical user interfaceGenuine Parts Company
Sep 18, 2018D828,831Digital kioskGenuine Parts Company
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Oct 17, 20242024/0343494STRIP BELT FOR A MERGE CONVEYORHandlingMotion Industries, Inc.
Jan 15, 20152015/0019371SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING PARTS CONFIGURATIONSIT methods for managementGenuine Parts Company
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Handling 1.

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 GPC · research, not advice