Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
79 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 Imax Corp’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
79
76 utility, 3 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
6
Against 3 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
31
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
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.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Audio-visual technology4
Computer technology3
Digital communication2
Optics2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
IMAX CORPORATION its own name
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
16 publishedIMAX Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in CA
15 publishedRidefilm Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,505,639 | Enhancing image data for different types of displays | Digital communication | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 12,463,757 | Automatic visual media transmission error assessment | Computer technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 12,348,911 | Light conditioning of direct view display for cinema | Optics | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Jul 1, 2025 | 12,346,015 | Methods and systems for controlling light output based on a light level threshold at a boundary | Optics | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Jun 17, 2025 | 12,333,741 | No-reference visual media assessment combining deep neural networks and models of human visual system and video content/distortion analysis | Computer technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Mar 25, 2025 | 12,262,097 | Unified end-to-end quality and latency measurement, optimization and management in multimedia communications | Digital communication | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Nov 12, 2024 | 12,143,563 | Scaling factor detection for compressed images and videos | Audio-visual technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Oct 29, 2024 | 12,132,913 | Perceptual quality assessment metric based content and viewer aware encoding | Audio-visual technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 12,047,553 | Stereo image projection with high intra-frame contrast | Audio-visual technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
| Jan 3, 2023 | 11,544,830 | Enhancing image data with appearance controls | Computer technology | IMAX CORPORATION |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 18, 2025 | 2025/0294122 | LIGHT CONDITIONING OF DIRECT VIEW DISPLAY FOR CINEMA | Optics | IMAX Corporation |
| Sep 26, 2024 | 2024/0319574 | ADJUSTABLE LENS APERTURE ELEMENT IN A PROJECTION LENS | Optics | IMAX Corporation |
| Nov 16, 2023 | 2023/0368489 | ENHANCING IMAGE DATA FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF DISPLAYS | Digital communication | IMAX Corporation · patent 12,505,639 granted from it |
| May 19, 2022 | 2022/0159234 | STEREO IMAGE PROJECTION WITH HIGH INTRA-FRAME CONTRAST | Audio-visual technology | IMAX Corporation · patent 12,047,553 granted from it |
| Jun 3, 2021 | 2021/0168352 | STEREO IMAGE PROJECTION WITH HIGH INTRA-FRAME CONTRAST | Audio-visual technology | IMAX Corporation |
| Mar 4, 2021 | 2021/0065341 | ENHANCING IMAGE DATA WITH APPEARANCE CONTROLS | Computer technology | IMAX Corporation · patent 11,544,830 granted from it |
| Jul 13, 2017 | 2017/0201845 | Systems and Method for Monitoring Cinema Loudspeakers and Compensating for Quality Problems | Audio-visual technology | IMAX Corporation · patent 10,924,874 granted from it |
| Feb 2, 2017 | 2017/0034488 | REDUCING ANGULAR SPREAD IN DIGITAL IMAGE PROJECTION | Audio-visual technology | IMAX Corporation · patent 10,073,328 granted from it |
| Aug 25, 2016 | 2016/0249130 | SPEAKER BAFFLE | Audio-visual technology | IMAX CORPORATION · patent 10,484,785 granted from it |
| Mar 3, 2016 | 2016/0059147 | VERTICAL WINDING OF A SCREEN INTO A ROLL | Furniture, games | IMAX Corporation · patent 10,252,179 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Optics 2.
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.