Company Analysis

United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI)

NYSE: UNFI · Wholesale-Groceries, General Line · Providence, RI · filing with the SEC since 1996
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Patents

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

11 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 United Natural Foods Inc’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
11
10 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
0
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'94'98'99'00'02'13
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name3 counted
F. F. Acquisition Corp. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
8 granted
0 published
Shoppers Food Warehouse Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 published
Supervalu, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jul 2, 20138,474,096Truck and trailer door safety deviceCivil engineeringSupervalu, Inc.
Feb 26, 20026,349,786Emergency stopping system for child's powered recreational vehicleElectrical machinery, apparatus, energyF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Jan 29, 20026,342,013Apparatus and method for a child's suspended merry-go-roundFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Oct 31, 20006,139,474Trampoline safety padFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Apr 11, 20006,048,251Flip over toyFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Dec 14, 19996,001,045Trampoline safety padFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Feb 9, 19995,868,648Foldable treadmill apparatus and methodFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Jan 5, 19995,855,537Powered folding treadmill apparatus and methodFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Nov 3, 19985,830,113Foldable treadmill and bench apparatus and methodFurniture, gamesF. F. Acquisition Corp.
Aug 16, 1994D349,617Salad bar with fanShoppers Food Warehouse Corporation

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 UNFI · research, not advice