Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
104 patents granted to the 5 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 Globalstar, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
104
104 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against none in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
41
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
5
its own name, a subsidiary
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
Digital communication6
Measurement2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Globalstar L.P. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
9 publishedGlobalstar, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
14 publishedM87, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedM87, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
12 publishedGlobalstar, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | 12,289,156 | Concurrent uses of interfaces for participating in wireless networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Feb 25, 2025 | 12,238,513 | Methods and systems and secure connections for joining wireless networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Nov 28, 2023 | 11,832,097 | Methods and systems and secure connections for joining wireless networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Aug 29, 2023 | 11,740,364 | System and method to reduce PPP filter convergence time using LEO frequency band signals | Measurement | Globalstar, Inc. |
| Jan 18, 2022 | 11,226,416 | System and method to reduce PPP filter convergence time using LEO frequency band signals | Measurement | Globalstar, Inc. |
| Aug 10, 2021 | 11,089,490 | Methods and apparatus for collecting and/or using wireless communication related information to facilitate WT mode of operation decisions | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Jul 13, 2021 | 11,064,355 | Methods and systems and secure connections for joining hybrid cellular and non-cellular networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| May 4, 2021 | 10,999,712 | Network methods and apparatus | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Sep 8, 2020 | 10,771,144 | Concurrent uses of non-cellular interfaces for participating in hybrid cellular and non-cellular networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
| Feb 25, 2020 | 10,575,170 | Methods and systems of secure connections for joining hybrid cellular and non-cellular networks | Digital communication | M87, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 16, 2024 | 2024/0163663 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS AND SECURE CONNECTIONS FOR JOINING WIRELESS NETWORKS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 12,238,513 granted from it |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 2021/0306847 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS AND SECURE CONNECTIONS FOR JOINING WIRELESS NETWORKS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 11,832,097 granted from it |
| Feb 25, 2021 | 2021/0058141 | CONCURRENT USES OF NON-CELLULAR INTERFACES FOR PARTICIPATING IN HYBRID CELLULAR AND NON-CELLULAR NETWORKS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 12,289,156 granted from it |
| May 21, 2020 | 2020/0162903 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS AND SECURE CONNECTIONS FOR JOINING HYBRID CELLULAR AND NON-CELLULAR NETWORKS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 11,064,355 granted from it |
| Aug 15, 2019 | 2019/0253844 | NETWORK METHODS AND APPARATUS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 10,999,712 granted from it |
| Feb 14, 2019 | 2019/0053048 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SECURE CONNECTIONS FOR JOINING HYBRID CELLULAR AND NON-CELLULAR NETWORKS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 10,575,170 granted from it |
| Sep 13, 2018 | 2018/0262962 | COMMUNICATIONS RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 10,517,027 granted from it |
| Feb 23, 2017 | 2017/0054488 | COMMUNICATIONS METHODS AND APPARATUS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 10,205,505 granted from it |
| Feb 9, 2017 | 2017/0041845 | COMMUNICATIONS RELATED METHODS AND APPARATUS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 9,986,480 granted from it |
| Jan 12, 2017 | 2017/0013658 | NETWORK METHODS AND APPARATUS | Digital communication | M87, Inc. · patent 10,292,019 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 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.