NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc. (NWE)
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 20268 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 NorthWestern Energy Group, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
1 published
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2005 | 6,857,710 | Secure merchandise-vending machine | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Feb 6, 2001 | 6,182,859 | Brush housing for bulk vending machine | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Oct 10, 2000 | D431,837 | Vending machine | The Northwestern Corporation | |
| Jun 27, 2000 | 6,079,540 | Coin mechanism for bulk vending machine | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Apr 23, 1996 | 5,509,521 | Coin mechanism for vending machine for handling magnetic coins | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Aug 23, 1994 | 5,339,937 | Coin mechanism for bulk vending machine | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Mar 2, 1993 | 5,190,133 | Bulk vending machine apparatus | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Jan 5, 1993 | D332,285 | Vending machine | The Northwestern Corporation |
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2011 | 2011/0253501 | COIN MECHANISM FOR A BULK VENDING MACHINE | Control | The Northwestern Corporation |
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.