Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
22 patents granted to the 7 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 Signet Jewelers Limited’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
22
18 utility, 4 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
14
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
7
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
Computer technology2
IT methods for management1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name7 counted
BLUE NILE, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedSTERLING JEWELERS INC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedSterling, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 4 more under the same name are not counted (printed in CA)
0 publishedBlue Nile, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
6 publishedDiamonds Direct USA, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 publishedZale Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedZale Canada Co. a subsidiary
CA, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Apr 1, 2025 | D1,068,338 | Jewelry viewing stand | | STERLING JEWELERS INC |
| Jul 26, 2022 | 11,397,514 | Systems and methods for rotational video-like display of images of a gemstone in a viewer having a pan feature | Computer technology | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Mar 29, 2022 | 11,288,728 | Facilitated comparison of gemstones | IT methods for management | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Jan 5, 2021 | 10,884,582 | Systems and methods for progressively displaying images in a viewer to create a video-like display of a rotating item | Computer technology | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Jan 8, 2019 | 10,176,483 | User interface for displaying purchase concentration data for unique items based on consumer-specified constraints | Computer technology | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Mar 31, 2015 | 8,993,946 | Single-mode microwave popping device | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Sterling, LLC |
| Mar 18, 2014 | D701,138 | Gemstone | | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Sep 18, 2012 | 8,271,521 | Computerized search technique, such as an internet-based gemstone search technique | IT methods for management | BLUE NILE, INC. |
| Aug 4, 2009 | 7,568,301 | Article display device | Audio-visual technology | STERLING JEWELERS INC |
| Sep 19, 2006 | D528,460 | Diamond | | Zale Canada Co. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 2, 2024 | 2024/0142385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A JEWELRY VIEWING STAND | Measurement | STERLING JEWELERS INC |
| May 2, 2024 | 2024/0138534 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTERCHANGEABLE RING | Other consumer goods | STERLING JEWELERS INC |
| Oct 20, 2022 | 2022/0335499 | FACILITATED COMPARISON OF GEMSTONES | IT methods for management | Blue Nile, Inc. |
| May 13, 2021 | 2021/0141500 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRESSIVELY DISPLAYING IMAGES IN A VIEWER TO CREATE A VIDEO-LIKE DISPLAY OF A ROTATING ITEM | Computer technology | Blue Nile, Inc. · patent 11,397,514 granted from it |
| Feb 4, 2021 | 2021/0035178 | FACILITATED COMPARISON OF GEMSTONES | IT methods for management | Blue Nile, Inc. · patent 11,288,728 granted from it |
| Aug 15, 2019 | 2019/0251347 | OBJECT CHARACTERIZATION AND AUTHENTICATION | Computer technology | STERLING JEWELERS INC |
| Mar 21, 2019 | 2019/0087056 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROGRESSIVELY DISPLAYING IMAGES IN A VIEWER TO CREATE A VIDEO-LIKE DISPLAY OF A ROTATING ITEM | Computer technology | Blue Nile, Inc. · patent 10,884,582 granted from it |
| Jun 9, 2016 | 2016/0162968 | METHOD OF ALLOWING SELECTION OF FINE JEWELRY FOR POSSIBLE PRUCHASE BY PRIOR EXAMINATION OF REPLICA JEWELRY | IT methods for management | Diamonds Direct USA, Inc. |
| Jun 9, 2016 | 2016/0162967 | METHOD OF ALLOWING SELECTION OF FINE JEWELRY FOR POSSIBLE PURCHASE BY PRIOR EXAMINATION OF REPLICA JEWELRY | IT methods for management | Diamonds Direct USA, Inc. |
| Jun 2, 2016 | 2016/0155254 | MOBILE DEVICE INTERFACE FOR COMPARING UNIQUE ITEMS CHARACTERIZED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF ATTRIBUTES | Computer technology | Blue Nile, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Other consumer goods 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.