Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
695 patents granted to the 4 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 Groupon, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
695
695 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 17 in 2024 and 107 in 2023
Applications published
688
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'10'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
IT methods for management221
Computer technology113
Digital communication42
Measurement2
Control1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Groupon, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
60 publishedGroupon, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
604 publishedLIVINGSOCIAL, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 publishedLivingSocial, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
18 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 15, 2024 | 12,118,496 | Merchant incremental electronic impact value prediction and ranking using multiple machine learning models | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 12,026,757 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining closing metrics | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| May 14, 2024 | 11,983,733 | Facilitating consumer payments and redemptions of deal offers preliminary class | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| May 14, 2024 | 11,983,693 | Peer-to-peer payment processing | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Apr 9, 2024 | 11,954,730 | Managing merchant communications | IT methods for management | LIVINGSOCIAL, INC. |
| Apr 9, 2024 | 11,954,707 | Consumer presence based deal offers | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Mar 26, 2024 | 11,941,661 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for predicting web browsing behaviors of consumers | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Mar 5, 2024 | 11,922,484 | Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for providing a digital unwrapping trigger | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Feb 27, 2024 | 11,914,662 | System, method, and computer program product for automated discovery, curation and editing of online local content | Computer technology | Groupon, Inc. |
| Feb 20, 2024 | 11,907,277 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for classification and tagging of textual data | Computer technology | Groupon, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 31, 2024 | 2024/0362609 | PEER-TO-PEER PAYMENT PROCESSING | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Oct 17, 2024 | 2024/0346541 | FACILITATING CONSUMER PAYMENTS AND REDEMPTIONS OF DEAL OFFERS | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Aug 29, 2024 | 2024/0289843 | CONSUMER PRESENCE BASED DEAL OFFERS | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,271,927 granted from it |
| Aug 22, 2024 | 2024/0281875 | MANAGING MERCHANT COMMUNICATIONS | IT methods for management | LivingSocial, Inc. · patent 12,307,510 granted from it |
| Aug 22, 2024 | 2024/0281848 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING WEB BROWSING BEHAVIORS OF CONSUMERS | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,380,469 granted from it |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 2024/0249341 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A DIGITAL UNWRAPPING TRIGGER | IT methods for management | Groupon, Inc. |
| Jul 18, 2024 | 2024/0241918 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTOMATED DISCOVERY, CURATION AND EDITING OF ONLINE LOCAL CONTENT | Computer technology | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,287,838 granted from it |
| Jul 4, 2024 | 2024/0220526 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CLASSIFICATION AND TAGGING OF TEXTUAL DATA | Computer technology | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,174,872 granted from it |
| Jun 20, 2024 | 2024/0205484 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROGRAMMATICALLY GENERATING A CHANNEL INCREMENTALITY RATIO | Digital communication | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,212,797 granted from it |
| Jun 20, 2024 | 2024/0202241 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING A SEARCH INDEX GENERATOR | Computer technology | Groupon, Inc. · patent 12,468,763 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: IT methods for management 15 · Computer technology 12 · Digital communication 5.
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.