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 Northern Trust Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
12
12 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 2 in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
5
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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 communication3
IT methods for management3
Computer technology2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Northern Trust Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedNORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 publishedNames not counted (1)
MFC Company, Inc.
Not the family's name, under a bank, a property company or a blank-check company.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 23, 2025 | 12,423,219 | Computing technologies for verification of stability of production environments | Computer technology | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Mar 12, 2024 | 11,928,438 | Computing technologies for large language models | Computer technology | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Jan 9, 2024 | 11,869,015 | Computing technologies for benchmarking | IT methods for management | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Jun 27, 2023 | 11,689,695 | Computing technologies for screensharing | Digital communication | Northern Trust Corporation |
| May 2, 2023 | 11,641,280 | Computing technologies for enabling blockchain-based digital tokens with asset-specific attributes | Digital communication | Northern Trust Corporation |
| May 24, 2022 | 11,341,488 | Systems and methods for issuing and tracking digital tokens within distributed network nodes | IT methods for management | Northern Trust Corporation |
| May 3, 2022 | 11,321,681 | Systems and methods for issuing and tracking digital tokens within distributed network nodes | IT methods for management | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Sep 21, 2021 | 11,128,467 | Systems and methods for digital identity management and permission controls within distributed network nodes | Digital communication | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Dec 18, 2018 | 10,158,479 | Systems and methods for generating, uploading and executing code blocks within distributed network nodes | Computer technology | Northern Trust Corporation |
| Dec 4, 2018 | 10,146,947 | Systems and methods for generating and maintaining immutable digital meeting records within distributed network nodes | Digital communication | Northern Trust Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0300834 | COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENABLING BLOCKCHAIN-BASED DIGITAL TOKENS WITH ASSET-SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTES | Digital communication | NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION |
| Oct 4, 2018 | 2018/0287800 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT AND PERMISSION CONTROLS WITHIN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK NODES | Digital communication | NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION · patent 11,128,467 granted from it |
| Aug 9, 2018 | 2018/0227116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING, UPLOADING, AND EXECUTING CODE BLOCKS WITHIN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK NODES | Computer technology | Northern Trust Corporation · patent 10,158,479 granted from it |
| Aug 9, 2018 | 2018/0225660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ISSUING AND TRACKING DIGITAL TOKENS WITHIN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK NODES | IT methods for management | NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION · patent 11,341,488 granted from it |
| Aug 9, 2018 | 2018/0225640 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ISSUING AND TRACKING DIGITAL TOKENS WITHIN DISTRIBUTED NETWORK NODES | IT methods for management | NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION · patent 11,321,681 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 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.