Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
136 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 Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
136
114 utility, 22 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
31
Against 30 in 2024 and 37 in 2023
Applications published
128
33 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
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
Telecommunications72
Digital communication14
Basic communication processes9
Transport7
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy4
Macromolecular chemistry, polymers2
Measurement1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
136 granted
24 publishedSpace Exploration Technologies Corp. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
104 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,494,304 | System and method for providing signaling over a conductive material in a cable | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 25, 2025 | 12,483,284 | Integrated signal chain for an antenna assembly | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 4, 2025 | 12,463,333 | Radome assembly coupling with antenna assembly | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Oct 21, 2025 | D1,099,084 | Antenna apparatus | | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Aug 5, 2025 | 12,381,315 | Antenna apparatus and in-line calibration system for same | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,376,143 | System and method of providing a medium access control scheduler | Digital communication | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,376,138 | System and method of providing an adaptive modulation and coding scheme | Digital communication | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,375,988 | Low latency schedule-driven handovers | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,374,773 | Pan/tilt assembly for antenna apparatus | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Jul 29, 2025 | 12,374,772 | User terminal housing | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0388342 | SPACECRAFT SOLAR ARRAY BIASING AND TENSIONING SYSTEM | Transport | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0386278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTING INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO A SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK | Digital communication | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0358839 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL SCHEDULER | Digital communication | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0358697 | LOW LATENCY SCHEDULE-DRIVEN HANDOVERS | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 20, 2025 | 2025/0357664 | ANTENNA APPARATUS AND IN-LINE CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR SAME | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0350483 | POWER DISTRIBUTION OVER ETHERNET CONNECTION | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0330252 | ANTENNA APPARATUS AND IN-LINE CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR SAME | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0309516 | RADOME ASSEMBLY HAVING NODELESS CELLS | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0300745 | OVER-THE-AIR SELF CALIBRATION OF PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA WITH DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA ELEMENTS | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
| Sep 25, 2025 | 2025/0300346 | SELF CALIBRATION OF PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA WITH OVER-THE-AIR AND IN-LINE CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS | Telecommunications | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Telecommunications 34 · Digital communication 9 · Basic communication processes 4 · Transport 3 · Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy 2 · Macromolecular chemistry, polymers 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.