Company Analysis

Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN)

NYSE: MTN · Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation · Broomfield, CO · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade5.7
◀ Past 7.1● Present 6.3▶ Future 3.5

Patents

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

4 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 Vail Resorts, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
4
4 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
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'14'15
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Vail Resorts, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
0 published
Vail Resorts, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
4 published
Names not counted (2)
HPK, LLC
Most of its patents print KR; this name counts in US. 2 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
HPK, LLC
Most of its patents print KR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 2 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 24, 20159,195,867System and method for automated identification of a photographed subject at a resort areaIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc.
Sep 22, 20159,141,837RFID skier monitoring systems and methodsIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc.
Jan 13, 20158,933,808RFID skier monitoring systems and methodsIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc.
Mar 11, 20148,669,845RFID skier monitoring systems and methodsIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Mar 12, 20152015/0070140RFID SKIER MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODSIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc. · patent 9,141,837 granted from it
May 22, 20142014/0142847RFID SKIER MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODSIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc. · patent 8,933,808 granted from it
May 15, 20142014/0136106SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF A PHOTOGRAPHED SUBJECT AT A RESORT AREAIT methods for managementVail Resorts, Inc. · patent 9,195,867 granted from it
May 15, 20142014/0136105System and method for tracking activities of a customer at a resort areaIT methods for managementVail Resorts, 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.

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