Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
12 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 Morningstar, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
12
10 utility, 2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
4
1 of them in 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.
Under which name2 counted
Morningstar, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedMORNINGSTAR INC. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 22, 2017 | 9,740,995 | Coordinate-based document processing and data entry system and method | IT methods for management | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Nov 5, 2013 | 8,573,142 | Foliage separator for a transplanter | Other special machines | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Aug 20, 2013 | 8,513,913 | Photovoltaic system charge controller having buck converter with reversed MOSFETS | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Apr 24, 2012 | 8,164,299 | Maximum power point tracking charge controller with coupled inductor multi-phase converter | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Feb 28, 2012 | 8,122,838 | Transplanter | Other special machines | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Jun 7, 2011 | 7,954,439 | Transplanter | Other special machines | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Mar 15, 2011 | 7,905,186 | Transplanting apparatus | Other special machines | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Sep 27, 2005 | 6,949,843 | Grid-connected power systems having back-up power sources and methods of providing back-up power in grid-connected power systems | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Mar 30, 2004 | 6,714,414 | Spring spacer assemblies for maintaining electrical components in contact with thermal transfer surfaces | Semiconductors | Morningstar, Inc. |
| Jun 3, 1997 | 5,635,816 | Method and apparatus for controlling battery charging current | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Morningstar, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 8, 2025 | 2025/0148196 | AI ENHANCED PDF CONVERSION INTO HUMAN READABLE AND MACHINE PARSABLE HTML | Computer technology | MORNINGSTAR INC. |
| Aug 10, 2023 | 2023/0252231 | METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPROVED TABLE PROCESSING | Computer technology | MORNINGSTAR INC. · patent 12,456,005 granted from it |
| Jun 22, 2023 | 2023/0196476 | PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM THAT SIMULTANIOUSLY SUPPORTS MULTIPLE TAX-EXEMPT, TAX-DEFERRED AND TAXABLE ACCOUNTS | IT methods for management | Morningstar, Inc. |
| May 28, 2009 | 2009/0138406 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TARGET SPENDING PORTFOLIO | IT methods for management | Morningstar, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 1.
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.