Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
15 patents granted to the 3 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 Tucows Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
15
15 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a former name, a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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 name3 counted
Infonautics Corporation a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedeNom, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedTucows Inc. its own name
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 |
|---|
| Sep 26, 2023 | 11,768,343 | Contactless optical fiber internet customer premises installation | Optics | Tucows Inc. |
| Apr 15, 2008 | 7,359,987 | Method and system for providing static addresses for Internet connected devices even if the underlying address is dynamic | Digital communication | eNom, Inc. |
| Feb 16, 1999 | 5,873,076 | Architecture for processing search queries, retrieving documents identified thereby, and method for using same | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Oct 13, 1998 | 5,822,731 | Adjusting a hidden Markov model tagger for sentence fragments | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Oct 6, 1998 | 5,819,285 | Apparatus for capturing, storing and processing co-marketing information associated with a user of an on-line computer service using the world-wide-web. | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Sep 22, 1998 | 5,812,769 | Method and apparatus for redirecting a user to a new location on the world wide web using relative universal resource locators | IT methods for management | Infonautics Corporation |
| Apr 21, 1998 | 5,742,816 | Method and apparatus for identifying textual documents and multi-mediafiles corresponding to a search topic | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Apr 7, 1998 | 5,737,734 | Query word relevance adjustment in a search of an information retrieval system | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Feb 24, 1998 | 5,721,902 | Restricted expansion of query terms using part of speech tagging | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
| Feb 10, 1998 | 5,717,914 | Method for categorizing documents into subjects using relevance normalization for documents retrieved from an information retrieval system in response to a query | Computer technology | Infonautics Corporation |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
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.