McDonald's Corporation (MCD)
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 202613 patents granted to the name 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 McDonald's Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
1 published
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2006 | 7,059,467 | Conveyor belt assembly | Handling | McDonald's Corporation |
| Feb 21, 2006 | 7,001,626 | Automated grill | Furniture, games | McDonald's Corporation |
| Apr 25, 2000 | 6,053,359 | Automated beverage system | Handling | McDonald's Corporation |
| Apr 20, 1993 | D334,863 | Automatic beverage dispenser | McDonald's Corporation | |
| Aug 16, 1988 | 4,764,120 | Student response system | Control | McDonald's Corporation |
| Nov 24, 1987 | D292,878 | Dual compartment sandwich package | McDonald's Corporation | |
| Oct 27, 1987 | D292,483 | Dual compartment sandwich package | McDonald's Corporation | |
| Mar 31, 1987 | 4,653,685 | Dual compartment sandwich package | Handling | McDonald's Corporation |
| Apr 5, 1983 | D268,537 | Mobile salad bar | McDonald's Corporation | |
| Sep 15, 1981 | D260,708 | Salad bar | McDonald's Corporation |
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2007 | 2007/0077338 | Device and method for cooking food on a grill | Furniture, games | McDonald's Corporation · patent 8,555,777 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.