Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
7 patents granted to the 6 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 Sprout Social, Inc’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
11
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
6
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
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name6 counted
Sprout Social, LLC its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedNewswhip Media Limited a subsidiary
IE, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedNewsWhip Media Limited a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in IE
2 publishedSimply Measured, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedSimply Measured, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 publishedSprout Social Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Aug 5, 2025 | 12,380,119 | System and methods for generating optimal post times for social networking sites | Computer technology | Sprout Social, LLC |
| Sep 15, 2020 | 10,776,424 | System and method for identifying and ranking trending named entities in digital content objects | Computer technology | Newswhip Media Limited |
| Apr 14, 2020 | 10,621,680 | System and method for alerting users to digital content objects of potential interest | IT methods for management | Newswhip Media Limited |
| Dec 24, 2019 | 10,515,122 | Token stream processor and matching system | Computer technology | Simply Measured, Inc. |
| Jul 23, 2019 | 10,360,222 | System and methods for generating optimal post times for social networking sites | Computer technology | Sprout Social, LLC |
| May 17, 2016 | 9,342,802 | System and method of tracking rate of change of social network activity associated with a digital object | IT methods for management | Newswhip Media Limited |
| Dec 29, 2015 | 9,224,095 | System and methods for generating optimal post times for social networking sites | Computer technology | Sprout Social, LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 20, 2025 | 2025/0097185 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION | Digital communication | Sprout Social, LLC |
| Nov 9, 2023 | 2023/0362120 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION | Digital communication | Sprout Social, LLC |
| Aug 19, 2021 | 2021/0258271 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION | Digital communication | Sprout Social, LLC |
| Feb 27, 2020 | 2020/0067864 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION | Digital communication | Sprout Social, LLC |
| Jan 9, 2020 | 2020/0012654 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING OPTIMAL POST TIMES FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES | Computer technology | Sprout Social Inc. |
| Jul 5, 2018 | 2018/0189402 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALERTING USERS TO DIGITAL CONTENT OBJECTS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST | IT methods for management | NewsWhip Media Limited · patent 10,621,680 granted from it |
| Feb 1, 2018 | 2018/0032636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND RANKING TRENDING NAMED ENTITIES IN DIGITAL CONTENT OBJECTS | Computer technology | NewsWhip Media Limited · patent 10,776,424 granted from it |
| Jan 25, 2018 | 2018/0027085 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, ARTICLES AND METHODS FOR TRACKING USER REFERRAL ACTIONS | Digital communication | Simply Measured, Inc. |
| May 18, 2017 | 2017/0140069 | TOKEN STREAM PROCESSOR AND MATCHING SYSTEM | Computer technology | Simply Measured, Inc. · patent 10,515,122 granted from it |
| Jul 21, 2016 | 2016/0210290 | System and Methods For Generating Optimal Post Times For Social Networking Sites | Computer technology | Sprout Social Inc. · patent 10,360,222 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Digital communication 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.