Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
8 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 Kohls Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
8
8 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
9
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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
Control3
Computer technology2
Digital communication1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Kohl's, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
9 publishedKohl's, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedKin, Inc. 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 |
|---|
| May 14, 2024 | 11,984,003 | Device for automated removal of security tags and associated systems and methods | Control | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 11,599,548 | Utilize high performing trained machine learning models for information retrieval in a web store | Computer technology | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Sep 20, 2022 | 11,448,508 | Systems and methods for autonomous generation of maps | Computer technology | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Aug 16, 2022 | 11,417,186 | Device for automated removal of security tags and associated systems and methods | Control | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Jun 28, 2022 | 11,373,140 | Dispenser and associated tracking application | Control | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Mar 2, 2021 | 10,938,787 | Cloud services management system and method | Digital communication | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Sep 1, 2020 | 10,762,469 | Dispenser and associated tracking application | Control | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Oct 31, 1989 | 4,876,773 | Enclosed containment apparatus for postmortem settings | Medical technology | Kin, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 13, 2023 | 2023/0111745 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MODELS FOR RECOMMENDING REPLACEMENT ITEMS FOR UNAVAILABLE IN-STORE PURCHASES | IT methods for management | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Feb 2, 2023 | 2023/0036860 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED REMOVAL OF SECURITY TAGS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Control | Kohl's, Inc. · patent 11,984,003 granted from it |
| Jul 29, 2021 | 2021/0232433 | OPERATIONS COST AWARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Computer technology | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Apr 15, 2021 | 2021/0110688 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED REMOVAL OF SECURITY TAGS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Control | Kohl's, Inc. · patent 11,417,186 granted from it |
| Apr 1, 2021 | 2021/0097467 | RISK-CONTROLLED OPERATIONS COST PERFORMANCE MODELING AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | IT methods for management | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Mar 11, 2021 | 2021/0073890 | CATALOG-BASED IMAGE RECOMMENDATIONS | Computer technology | Kohl's, Inc. |
| Jan 7, 2021 | 2021/0004379 | UTILIZE HIGH PERFORMING TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN A WEB STORE | Computer technology | Kohl's, Inc. · patent 11,599,548 granted from it |
| Dec 17, 2020 | 2020/0394601 | DISPENSER AND ASSOCIATED TRACKING APPLICATION | Control | Kohl's, Inc. · patent 11,373,140 granted from it |
| Dec 3, 2020 | 2020/0380583 | PROMPTLY ADJUST RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE IN A WEB SITE | IT methods for management | Kohl's, Inc. |
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.