Company Analysis

Lincoln National Corp. (LNC)

NYSE: LNC · Life Insurance · Radnor, PA · filing with the SEC since 1994
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◀ Past 2.6● Present 3.8▶ Future 3.2

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

10 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 Lincoln National Corp.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
10
10 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
4
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'03'06'08'11'12'13'14
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
10 granted
1 published
The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 17, 20148,756,084Method and apparatus for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Jul 9, 20138,484,055Method and apparatus for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Apr 23, 20138,429,052Method and system for providing employer-sponsored retirement planIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Jun 19, 20128,204,767Method and apparatus for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
May 8, 20128,175,940Method and system for administering a variable universal life insurance product having a volatility reduction featureIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Jan 10, 20128,095,398Method and apparatus for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Jan 25, 20117,877,303System and methods for tracking the relative interests of the parties to an insurance policyIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
May 20, 20087,376,608Method and system for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Aug 8, 20067,089,201Method and apparatus for providing retirement income benefitsIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Aug 26, 20036,611,815Method and system for providing account values in an annuity with life contingenciesIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Apr 17, 20142014/0108297METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RETIREMENT INCOME BENEFITSIT methods for managementThe Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
Feb 27, 20142014/0058976COMPUTERIZED SALES TOOL FOR VISUALIZING THE IMPACT OF SELECTIVE FINANCIAL PRODUCTS ON RETIREMENT PLANNINGIT methods for managementThe Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
Oct 24, 20132013/0282411METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RETIREMENT INCOME BENEFITSIT methods for managementThe Lincoln National Life Insurance Company · patent 8,756,084 granted from it
Jul 11, 20132013/0179358METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING EMPLOYER- SPONSORED RETIREMENT PLANIT methods for managementLincoln National Life Insurance Co.

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.

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