Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
12 patents granted to the 8 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 Smithfield Foods, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
12
11 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 2 in 2023
Applications published
20
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
8
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'05'08'09'11'12'13'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'23'24
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
Other special machines1
Environmental technology1
Food chemistry1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name8 counted
Smithfield Foods, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
5 publishedSF Investments, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedSmithfield Foods, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
6 publishedCelsus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 publishedSF INVESTMENTS, INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 publishedNPD Investments, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedSMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS CORP. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedSMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS CORP. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jun 20, 2023 | 11,679,937 | Multi-tier and spiral microwave oven dryers for rapid preparation of dry sausage | Food chemistry | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Feb 7, 2023 | 11,572,288 | Waste peptone disposal system and methods | Environmental technology | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Feb 16, 2021 | 10,918,123 | Reconstructed bacon product | Other special machines | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Jul 7, 2020 | 10,703,003 | Method and apparatus for spiral ham slicing | Machine tools | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Aug 27, 2019 | 10,391,658 | Apparatus and method for spirally slicing meat | Machine tools | SF Investments, Inc. |
| Aug 6, 2019 | 10,370,133 | Vacuum packing monitoring and control system | Handling | SF Investments, Inc. |
| Nov 6, 2018 | D832,695 | Food packaging | | SMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS CORP. |
| Jul 25, 2017 | 9,713,335 | Process and apparatus for rapid preparation of dry sausage | Other special machines | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| May 2, 2017 | 9,636,832 | Apparatus and method for spirally slicing meat | Machine tools | SF Investments, Inc. |
| May 21, 2013 | 8,445,041 | Dehydrated castor oil as an animal feed supplement | Food chemistry | NPD Investments, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 5, 2024 | 2024/0295288 | FOOD PROCESSING TREE SUPPORT | Other special machines | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Mar 12, 2020 | 2020/0079659 | WASTE PEPTONE DISPOSAL SYSTEM AND METHODS | Environmental technology | Smithfield Foods, Inc. · patent 11,572,288 granted from it |
| Oct 17, 2019 | 2019/0313675 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING READY-TO-EAT BACON WITH PAN FRIED BACON CHARACTERISTICS | Food chemistry | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Sep 5, 2019 | 2019/0269143 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING READY-TO-EAT BACON WITH PAN FRIED BACON CHARACTERISTICS | Food chemistry | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Jun 6, 2019 | 2019/0166894 | MEAT SNACK PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING | Food chemistry | SMITHFIELD PACKAGED MEATS CORP. |
| May 16, 2019 | 2019/0142040 | BACON PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING | Other special machines | Smithfield Foods, Inc. · patent 10,918,123 granted from it |
| Feb 22, 2018 | 2018/0050461 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPIRALLY SLICING MEAT | Machine tools | SF INVESTMENTS, INC. · patent 10,391,658 granted from it |
| Nov 30, 2017 | 2017/0339990 | MEAT SNACK PRODUCT AND METHOD OF MAKING | Food chemistry | SF INVESTMENTS, INC. |
| Aug 31, 2017 | 2017/0245534 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING READY-TO-EAT BACON WITH PAN FRIED BACON CHARACTERISTICS | Food chemistry | Smithfield Foods, Inc. |
| Feb 23, 2017 | 2017/0050754 | Vacuum Packing Monitoring and Control System | Handling | SF INVESTMENTS, INC. · patent 10,370,133 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Other special machines 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.