Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
100 patents granted to the 7 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 Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
100
96 utility, 4 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 4 in 2024 and 4 in 2023
Applications published
53
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
7
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
Digital communication5
Machine tools4
Materials, metallurgy3
Computer technology1
Other consumer goods1
Mechanical elements1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name7 counted
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedHuntington Ingalls Incorporated a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedHuntington Ingalls Incorporated a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
31 publishedGray Research LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
8 publishedIngalls Shipbuilding, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedHuntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
7 publishedGray Research LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 22, 2025 | 12,281,720 | Spool valve actuator | Mechanical elements | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 12,182,479 | System and method for in-situ inspection of additive manufacturing materials and builds | Materials, metallurgy | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Nov 5, 2024 | 12,134,137 | System and method for ultrasonic additive manufacturing | Machine tools | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Apr 30, 2024 | 11,973,697 | Composing diverse remote cores and FPGAs | Digital communication | Gray Research LLC |
| Feb 13, 2024 | 11,897,046 | System and method for ultrasonic additive manufacturing | Machine tools | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Jul 11, 2023 | 11,697,038 | Method and device for securing a vertical line | Other consumer goods | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Jun 13, 2023 | 11,677,662 | FPGA-efficient directional two-dimensional router | Digital communication | Gray Research LLC |
| Feb 21, 2023 | 11,583,950 | System and method for ultrasonic additive manufacturing | Machine tools | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Jan 31, 2023 | 11,565,324 | System and method for in-situ inspection of additive manufacturing materials and builds | Materials, metallurgy | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Sep 27, 2022 | 11,455,171 | Multiported parity scoreboard circuit | Computer technology | Gray Research LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Feb 6, 2025 | 2025/0044515 | FIBER-OPTIC-SPLICE ENCLOSURE | Optics | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. |
| Aug 29, 2024 | 2024/0288089 | Spool Valve Actuator | Mechanical elements | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated · patent 12,281,720 granted from it |
| Aug 1, 2024 | 2024/0254579 | AUTOMATED PLATE SHAPING AND VERIFICATION | Materials, metallurgy | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Jul 4, 2024 | 2024/0223514 | MULTICAST MESSAGE DELIVERY ACROSS REMOTE CORES | Digital communication | Gray Research LLC |
| Mar 28, 2024 | 2024/0101233 | DEVICE FOR THE LAUNCH AND RECOVERY OF LARGE DIAMETER UNCREWED UNDERWATER VEHICLE | Transport | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated |
| Jul 13, 2023 | 2023/0219659 | Maritime Automated Alignment And Connection System | Transport | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. · patent 12,084,152 granted from it |
| May 18, 2023 | 2023/0150051 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASONIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | Machine tools | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated · patent 12,134,137 granted from it |
| Apr 20, 2023 | 2023/0116991 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-SITU INSPECTION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING MATERIALS AND BUILDS | Materials, metallurgy | Huntington Ingalls Incorporated · patent 12,182,479 granted from it |
| Dec 29, 2022 | 2022/0417177 | COMPOSING DIVERSE REMOTE CORES AND FPGAS | Digital communication | Gray Research LLC · patent 11,973,697 granted from it |
| Sep 1, 2022 | 2022/0276442 | FIBER-OPTIC-SPLICE ENCLOSURE | Optics | Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. · patent 12,124,084 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Transport 1 · Digital communication 1 · Materials, metallurgy 1 · Mechanical elements 1 · Optics 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.