Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
107 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 W.W. Grainger, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
107
92 utility, 15 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
Against 3 in 2024 and 4 in 2023
Applications published
128
3 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
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
Computer technology11
IT methods for management5
Digital communication1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
W.W. Grainger, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
86 publishedW.W. Grainger, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
42 publishedSAFETY SOLUTIONS, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jul 15, 2025 | D1,083,928 | Product scanner | | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 12,346,874 | Vision-based system and method for providing inventory data collection and management | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Feb 18, 2025 | 12,229,813 | System and method for providing three-dimensional, visual search | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Jan 14, 2025 | 12,200,171 | Systems and methods for providing call center service with visual search | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Nov 12, 2024 | 12,141,851 | System and method for providing tap-less, real-time visual search | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Oct 1, 2024 | 12,106,357 | Crowd sourced real-time search engine filters and user interfaces | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Aug 6, 2024 | 12,056,734 | System and method for providing personalized search results | IT methods for management | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 11,836,977 | System and method for hybrid visual searches and augmented reality | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 11,836,678 | System and method for managing product inventory | IT methods for management | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Dec 5, 2023 | 11,836,182 | System and method for using an image to obtain search results | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0307767 | VISION-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INVENTORY DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Jul 3, 2025 | 2025/0220116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CALL CENTER SERVICE WITH VISUAL SEARCH | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| May 1, 2025 | 2025/0139679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL, VISUAL SEARCH | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Mar 21, 2024 | 2024/0095774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING UNDERPERFORMING SEARCHES | IT methods for management | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 2024/0078505 | VISION-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INVENTORY DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. · patent 12,346,874 granted from it |
| Oct 5, 2023 | 2023/0316848 | ROBOTIC VENDING MACHINE SYSTEM | Control | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| May 4, 2023 | 2023/0134715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCT INVENTORY | IT methods for management | W.W. Grainger, Inc. · patent 11,836,678 granted from it |
| Dec 29, 2022 | 2022/0413634 | COMPUTER MOUSE PROVIDING A TOUCHLESS INPUT INTERFACE | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Aug 25, 2022 | 2022/0270118 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION TENDENCIES TO USERS OF A WEBSITE | IT methods for management | W.W. Grainger, Inc. |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 2022/0207585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL, VISUAL SEARCH | Computer technology | W.W. Grainger, Inc. · patent 12,229,813 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 4 · IT methods for management 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.