Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
13 patents granted to the 2 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 IDT Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
13
12 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
24
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
IDT Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
22 publishedIDT Corporation its own name
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 |
|---|
| Mar 15, 2016 | 9,288,642 | System and method for communicating using two-way SMS | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| Mar 3, 2015 | 8,968,077 | Methods and systems for interfacing with a third-party application | IT methods for management | IDT Corporation |
| Feb 24, 2015 | 8,964,728 | Optimization of consolidating entities | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| May 20, 2014 | 8,731,159 | Financial card activation method and system | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
| Feb 18, 2014 | 8,655,393 | System and method for communicating using two-way SMS | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| Jul 19, 2011 | 7,983,712 | Multi-mode wireless communication devices and systems for prepaid communication services | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| May 10, 2011 | 7,940,903 | Financial card activation method and system | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
| Jul 4, 2006 | 7,072,455 | Online method and apparatus for the interactive creation of custom prepaid virtual calling cards | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
| Dec 6, 2005 | D512,456 | Card | | IDT Corporation |
| Mar 22, 2005 | 6,871,062 | “Calling party pays” cellular and prepaid platforms for cellular calling systems | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 8, 2019 | 2019/0242841 | HYDROPHOBIC AND OLEOPHOBIC COVER FOR GAS SENSING MODULE | Measurement | IDT Corporation |
| May 21, 2015 | 2015/0141023 | OPTIMIZATION OF CONSOLIDATING ENTITIES | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| Jun 12, 2014 | 2014/0162710 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING USING TWO-WAY SMS | Digital communication | IDT Corporation · patent 9,288,642 granted from it |
| Oct 31, 2013 | 2013/0287193 | UNIVERSAL PREPAID COMMUNICATIONS | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
| Feb 23, 2012 | 2012/0047069 | Universal Prepaid Communications | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation |
| Sep 1, 2011 | 2011/0211681 | FINANCIAL CARD ACTIVATION METHOD AND SYSTEM | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation · patent 8,731,159 granted from it |
| Aug 11, 2011 | 2011/0196787 | System And Method Of Transferring Money To An Electronic Wallet | IT methods for management | IDT Corporation |
| Aug 21, 2008 | 2008/0198998 | Strategic Telecom Optimized Routing Machine | Digital communication | IDT Corporation |
| May 29, 2008 | 2008/0123828 | Financial card activation method and system | Telecommunications | IDT Corporation · patent 7,940,903 granted from it |
| Mar 27, 2008 | 2008/0076385 | Multi-mode wireless communication devices and systems for prepaid communication services | Digital communication | IDT Corporation · patent 7,983,712 granted from it |
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.