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Starbucks Corporation (SBUX)

Nasdaq: SBUX · Retail-Eating & Drinking Places · Seattle, WA · filing with the SEC since 1994
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

234 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 Starbucks Corporation’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
234
121 utility, 113 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
54
Against 49 in 2024 and 13 in 2023
Applications published
115
24 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own 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
Furniture, games15
Handling13
IT methods for management11
Computer technology11
Food chemistry9
Digital communication3
Chemical engineering2
Measurement1
Control1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Starbucks Corporation its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
234 granted
16 published
Starbucks Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
99 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 18, 2025D1,102,210Shaker cup and shaker cup lid setStarbucks Corporation
Nov 18, 2025D1,102,206BarStarbucks Corporation
Nov 11, 202512,468,998System for configuring an environment based on modifications to simulated virtual environmentsIT methods for managementStarbucks Corporation
Nov 4, 202512,459,802Systems, methods, and devices for ingredient based dispensingHandlingStarbucks Corporation
Oct 28, 2025D1,099,750Plaque for displaying a patentStarbucks Corporation
Oct 28, 202512,453,438Software application and computer system for using personal receptaclesIT methods for managementStarbucks Corporation
Oct 7, 202512,433,444Apparatus for foaming a beverageFurniture, gamesStarbucks Corporation
Sep 30, 2025D1,095,324ContainerStarbucks Corporation
Sep 30, 2025D1,095,235ContainerStarbucks Corporation
Sep 9, 2025D1,092,152LidStarbucks Corporation
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 11, 20252025/0374944LAVENDER SUGAR COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND USING SAMEFood chemistryStarbucks Corporation
Nov 20, 20252025/0353647CONTAINER LIDHandlingStarbucks Corporation
Oct 23, 20252025/0326539LID WITH STOPPERHandlingStarbucks Corporation
Oct 23, 20252025/0326518CUP WITH GROOVESHandlingStarbucks Corporation
Oct 23, 20252025/0324997Methods for Producing Instant White CoffeeFood chemistryStarbucks Corporation
Oct 23, 20252025/0324996Instant White CoffeeFood chemistryStarbucks Corporation
Oct 23, 20252025/0324995Methods of Making White Coffee SolublesFood chemistryStarbucks Corporation
Oct 9, 20252025/0313446AUTOMATED DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZED BEVERAGESHandlingStarbucks Corporation
Aug 28, 20252025/0268275Premix Energy BlendFood chemistryStarbucks Corporation
Aug 21, 20252025/0264260ICE CONTAINER SYSTEMSThermal processes and apparatusStarbucks Corporation
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Handling 20 · Food chemistry 11 · Furniture, games 8 · IT methods for management 4 · Control 3 · Engines, pumps, turbines 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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