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Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)

Nasdaq: NFLX · Services-Video Tape Rental · Los Gatos, CA · filing with the SEC since 2000
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

513 patents granted to the 3 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 Netflix, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
513
493 utility, 19 design, 1 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
49
Against 39 in 2024 and 64 in 2023
Applications published
544
69 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
Digital communication124
Computer technology80
Audio-visual technology41
Other consumer goods2
IT methods for management1
Telecommunications1
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy1
Basic communication processes1
Furniture, games1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Netflix, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
512 granted
43 published
NETFLIX, INC. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
500 published
NETFLIX.COM, INC. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,513,343Debanding systems and methodsAudio-visual technologyNetflix, Inc.
Dec 23, 202512,506,890Techniques for reconstructing downscaled video contentAudio-visual technologyNetflix, Inc.
Nov 25, 202512,483,617Predetermining network route for content steeringDigital communicationNetflix, Inc.
Nov 25, 202512,482,500Branching logic in a playback environmentDigital communicationNetflix, Inc.
Nov 25, 202512,481,544Systems and methods for predicting and mitigating out of memory killsComputer technologyNetflix, Inc.
Nov 18, 202512,477,034Techniques for steering network traffic to regions of a cloud computing systemDigital communicationNetflix, Inc.
Nov 11, 202512,469,146Systems and methods for automated video mattingComputer technologyNetflix, Inc.
Nov 4, 202512,464,175Simulation-based techniques for evaluating encoding ladders for video streamingDigital communicationNetflix, Inc.
Nov 4, 202512,464,147Techniques for avoiding re-encoding of media content itemsAudio-visual technologyNetflix, Inc.
Oct 28, 202512,456,179Techniques for generating a perceptual quality model for predicting video quality across different viewing parametersComputer technologyNetflix, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 25, 20252025/0392731TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING REGIONS OF INTERESTAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Dec 25, 20252025/0392637SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING APPLICATION REQUESTSDigital communicationNETFLIX, INC.
Dec 25, 20252025/0390451SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING LATENCY IN INPUT/OUTPUT TRANSACTIONSComputer technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Dec 4, 20252025/0373953LARGE-SCALE MULTI-ACTOR VOLUMETRIC VIDEO CAPTUREAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Dec 4, 20252025/0371601TECHNIQUES FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION USING USER FOUNDATION MODELSComputer technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Nov 27, 20252025/0365474TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING RECOMMENDATION MODELS USING SLIDING WINDOWSDigital communicationNETFLIX, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0358432TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING STEP SIZES WHEN PERFORMING TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATIONAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0358421TECHNIQUES FOR PERFORMING BOTH SCALAR QUANTIZATION AND TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION WHEN ENCODING VIDEO DATAAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0358420TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING BETWEEN SCALAR QUANTIZATION AND TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION WHEN ENCODING VIDEO DATAAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
Nov 20, 20252025/0358419TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING A RATE-DISTORTION MULTIPLIER WHEN PERFORMING TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATIONAudio-visual technologyNETFLIX, INC.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 43 · Digital communication 42 · Audio-visual technology 23 · Furniture, games 10 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 1 · Basic communication processes 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.

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