Company Analysis

Pool Corporation (POOL)

Nasdaq: POOL · Wholesale-Misc Durable Goods · Covington, LA · filing with the SEC since 1996
Grade5.9
◀ Past 7.5● Present 5.9▶ Future 4.5

Patents

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

19 patents granted to the 4 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 Pool Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
19
12 utility, 7 design, 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
4
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
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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
Civil engineering1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Pool Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
8 granted
0 published
ALLIANCE TRADING, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
3 published
Pool Systems Pty Ltd. a subsidiary
AU, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
1 published
Porpoise Pool & Patio, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
5 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Sep 21, 202111,124,979Methods and means for improving the interior surfaces of poolsCivil engineeringALLIANCE TRADING, INC.
Dec 5, 20179,834,948Methods and means for improving the interior surfaces of poolsCivil engineeringALLIANCE TRADING, INC.
Sep 1, 20159,121,191Pool cleanersCivil engineeringPool Systems Pty Ltd.
Oct 2, 20128,276,605Device for cleaning a filter elementChemical engineeringPool Systems Pty Ltd.
Aug 27, 2002D461,999Pruning devicePool Systems Pty Ltd.
Jan 29, 2002D453,246Pool vacuum headPool Systems Pty Ltd.
Aug 12, 19975,656,136Method of transporting and heating a liquid used for treating oil and gas wells or pipeline systemsCivil engineeringPool Company
Feb 20, 19965,492,436Apparatus and method for moving rig structuresCivil engineeringPool Company
Apr 4, 1995D357,057Floatable chlorinating devicePorpoise Pool & Patio, Inc.
Jan 3, 19955,377,748Spill container for wells with improved mountingCivil engineeringPool Company
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
May 25, 20172017/0145710Methods and Means for Improving the Interior Surfaces of PoolsCivil engineeringALLIANCE TRADING, INC. · patent 11,124,979 granted from it
Nov 17, 20162016/0333599Methods and Means for Improving the Interior Surfaces of PoolsCivil engineeringALLIANCE TRADING, INC. · patent 9,834,948 granted from it
May 14, 20152015/0129109Methods and Means for Improving the Interior Surfaces of PoolsCivil engineeringALLIANCE TRADING, INC.
Sep 25, 20142014/0284258POOL CLEANERSCivil engineeringPool Systems Pty Ltd. · patent 9,121,191 granted from it

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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