Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
1,344 patents granted to the 4 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 Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,344
1,257 utility, 85 design, 1 statutory invention registration, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 3 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
24
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'04'05'06'07'08'09'10'11'12'14'16'17'18'21'24
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
Other special machines1
Chemical engineering1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Kimberly-Clark Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 48 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA, printed in GB, printed in DE)
1 publishedI-Flow Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
20 publishedJackson Products, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedBECO, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 publishedNames not counted (1)
KIMBERLY CLARK CORP
Most of its patents print CA; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 4 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 13, 2024 | 12,059,889 | Air dryer utilizing low temperature, high velocity air | Chemical engineering | Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
| Jun 11, 2024 | D1,030,349 | Absorbent paper product dispenser | | Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
| Feb 20, 2024 | D1,015,011 | Absorbent product dispenser | | Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
| Jun 8, 2021 | 11,028,246 | Absorbent article containing a porous polyolefin film | Other special machines | Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
| Nov 11, 2014 | 8,882,673 | Continuous transversus abdominis plane block | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation |
| Aug 7, 2012 | 8,236,385 | Treatment of substrates for improving ink adhesion to the substrates | Textile and paper machines | Kimberly-Clark Inc. |
| Oct 25, 2011 | 8,043,465 | Catheter for uniform delivery of medication | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation |
| Aug 23, 2011 | 8,005,538 | Stimulating catheter | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation |
| Jun 14, 2011 | 7,959,623 | Method of fluid delivery and catheters for use with same | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation |
| Jan 18, 2011 | D631,153 | Elastic housing for infusion device | | I-Flow Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jan 25, 2018 | 2018/0027386 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT ENABLED INDOOR POSITIONING AND REPORTING | Digital communication | BECO, Inc. · patent 10,708,732 granted from it |
| Jan 12, 2017 | 2017/0013417 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT ENABLED INDOOR POSITIONING AND REPORTING | Digital communication | BECO, Inc. · patent 9,872,153 granted from it |
| May 5, 2016 | 2016/0127875 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LIGHT ENABLED INDOOR POSITIONING AND REPORTING | Digital communication | BECO, Inc. · patent 9,398,422 granted from it |
| Aug 4, 2011 | 2011/0190731 | Method for Fluid Delivery and Catheters for Use with Same | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 8,328,771 granted from it |
| Dec 2, 2010 | 2010/0305522 | FLUID MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 8,323,266 granted from it |
| Dec 2, 2010 | 2010/0305521 | FLUID MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 8,241,269 granted from it |
| Jan 7, 2010 | 2010/0000666 | CATHETER FOR UNIFORM DELIVERY OF MEDICATION | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 8,628,633 granted from it |
| Oct 8, 2009 | 2009/0250124 | PRESSURE REGULATOR | Control | I-Flow Corporation · patent 7,766,028 granted from it |
| Sep 17, 2009 | 2009/0234676 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A PATIENT | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 8,190,452 granted from it |
| Jul 23, 2009 | 2009/0184026 | PAIN MANAGEMENT KIT FOR ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION | Medical technology | I-Flow Corporation · patent 7,993,326 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.