Company Analysis

Ulta Beauty, Inc. (ULTA)

Nasdaq: ULTA · Retail-Retail Stores, NEC · Bolingbrook, IL · filing with the SEC since 2007
Grade7.3
◀ Past 8.0● Present 7.6▶ Future 6.1

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

4 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 Ulta Beauty, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
4
4 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
8
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'21'23'24'25
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 technology3
Medical technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
8 published
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 12, 20252025/0191306Methods and Systems for Generating Augmented Reality (AR) Objects for use to Implement Functions of an Electronic ProgramComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. · patent 12,406,450 granted from it
Dec 12, 20242024/0412432Methods and Systems for Transferring Hair Characteristics from a Reference Image to a Digital ImageComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
Dec 12, 20242024/0412328Methods and Systems for Modifying Hair Characteristics in a Digital ImageComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
May 16, 20242024/0160675Methods and Systems for Determining a Query Response using a Computing Platform in a Domain of Beauty or Cosmetic IndustryComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. · patent 12,222,998 granted from it
Feb 22, 20242024/0061911Methods and Systems for Enabling Electronic Access to Electronic Content Offerings Over a NetworkComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
Dec 14, 20232023/0401632Methods and Systems for Initiating a Virtual Try-On Application Running on a Computer System and Providing Interactive Augmented Reality (AR) GraphicsComputer technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. · patent 12,229,822 granted from it
Mar 16, 20232023/0077452Methods and Systems for Analyzing Skin and Providing Information Via a Graphical User Interface (GUI)Medical technologyUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. · patent 12,369,843 granted from it
Aug 5, 20212021/0241294DYNAMIC GROUP BUYING AND PRODUCT RE-PRICING USING MACHINE LEARNING METHODSIT methods for managementUlta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 5.

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.

SI Assistanton ULTA · research, not advice