Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
19 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 CarMax Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
19
19 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 6 in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
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
Computer technology12
Audio-visual technology1
Mechanical elements1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedCarMax Business Services, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedNames not counted (1)
CARMAX INC
Most of its patents print TW; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Feb 4, 2025 | 12,216,730 | Systems and methods for dynamic content distribution | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Nov 26, 2024 | 12,154,276 | Automatic image cropping systems and methods | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Oct 1, 2024 | 12,106,347 | Systems and methods for dynamically ingesting and monitoring online products | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Aug 6, 2024 | 12,056,327 | Systems and methods for generating a 360-degree viewing experience | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Jul 16, 2024 | 12,039,647 | Systems and methods for synthetic image generation | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Jun 18, 2024 | 12,015,850 | Vehicle image capture systems and methods | Mechanical elements | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Mar 5, 2024 | 11,922,921 | Systems and methods for comparing acoustic properties of environments and audio equipment | Audio-visual technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Oct 24, 2023 | 11,797,616 | Systems and methods for generating web pages for database search and search engine optimization | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Aug 29, 2023 | 11,741,182 | Systems and methods for dynamic content distribution | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
| Oct 11, 2022 | 11,467,710 | Systems and methods for generating a 360-degree viewing experience | Computer technology | CarMax Enterprise Services, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
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.