Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
9 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 Planet Labs PBC’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
9
9 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
3
Against 2 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
9
3 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
Telecommunications6
Audio-visual technology2
Transport1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
PLANET LABS PBC its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedPlanet Labs PBC its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
9 publishedNames not counted (3)
Terra Bella Technologies Inc.
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in SI. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
VanderSat B.V.
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
VanderSat B.V.
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 5, 2025 | 12,381,621 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Apr 22, 2025 | 12,284,024 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Jan 14, 2025 | 12,199,737 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Jun 11, 2024 | 12,010,428 | Controlling a line of sight angle of an imaging platform | Audio-visual technology | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Jan 23, 2024 | 11,881,927 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Jan 17, 2023 | 11,558,112 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Nov 22, 2022 | 11,507,905 | Satellite scheduling system | Transport | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Oct 4, 2022 | 11,463,158 | Multi-pathway satellite communication systems and methods | Telecommunications | PLANET LABS PBC |
| Jul 12, 2022 | 11,388,359 | Systems and methods for implementing time delay integration imaging techniques in conjunction with distinct imaging regions on a monolithic charge-coupled device image sensor | Audio-visual technology | PLANET LABS PBC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0382072 | Anisotropic Aperture Star Camera Systems and Methods | Measurement | Planet Labs PBC |
| Jul 3, 2025 | 2025/0219716 | Multi-Pathway Satellite Communication Systems and Methods | Telecommunications | Planet Labs PBC |
| Jan 2, 2025 | 2025/0002178 | Systems and Methods for Cloud Avoidance | Transport | Planet Labs PBC |
| Nov 7, 2024 | 2024/0372605 | Multi-Pathway Satellite Communication Systems and Methods | Telecommunications | Planet Labs PBC · patent 12,284,024 granted from it |
| May 9, 2024 | 2024/0154690 | Multi-Pathway Satellite Communication Systems and Methods | Telecommunications | Planet Labs PBC · patent 12,199,737 granted from it |
| Oct 19, 2023 | 2023/0336242 | Multi-Pathway Satellite Communication Systems and Methods | Telecommunications | Planet Labs PBC · patent 12,381,621 granted from it |
| Mar 16, 2023 | 2023/0083423 | Satellite Scheduling System | Transport | Planet Labs PBC |
| Jan 26, 2023 | 2023/0022164 | Multi-Pathway Satellite Communication Systems and Methods | Telecommunications | Planet Labs PBC · patent 11,881,927 granted from it |
| Aug 18, 2022 | 2022/0264014 | CONTROLLING A LINE OF SIGHT ANGLE OF AN IMAGING PLATFORM | Audio-visual technology | Planet Labs PBC · patent 12,010,428 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Telecommunications 3 · Transport 1 · Measurement 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.