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 Southwest Airlines Co.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
19
15 utility, 4 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
3
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
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
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Southwest Airlines Co. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedSouthwest Airlines Co. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 21, 2021 | 11,126,863 | Detection system | Transport | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Dec 17, 2019 | 10,507,921 | Provisioning cart for on-aircraft restocking | Transport | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Jul 22, 2014 | 8,788,303 | Fare availability calendar | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Apr 15, 2014 | 8,700,438 | Constraint-based schedule generation for transportation resources | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Aug 6, 2013 | 8,504,402 | Schedule optimization using market modeling | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| May 28, 2013 | 8,452,607 | Schedule planning network | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Nov 1, 2011 | 8,050,936 | Schedule planning network | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Oct 18, 2011 | 8,041,036 | Method and apparatus for preventing the interception of data being transmitted to a web site by a monitoring program | Computer technology | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Dec 28, 2010 | 7,860,740 | Generating and tuning an allocation of transportation resources | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
| Dec 7, 2010 | 7,848,944 | Tuning a schedule of transportation resources using mathematical programming | IT methods for management | Southwest Airlines Co. |
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.