Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
3 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 Upbound Group, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
3
2 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
2
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
8
2 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
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
IT methods for management2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedRent-A-Center West, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 18, 2025 | 12,475,505 | System and method for introduction of a transaction mechanism to an e-commerce website without necessitation of multiparty systems integration | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Nov 18, 2025 | 12,475,444 | System and method for introduction of a transaction mechanism to an e-commerce website without necessitation of multiparty systems integration | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Mar 21, 2023 | D981,482 | Payment card | | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Jul 3, 2025 | 2025/0217874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED EXECUTION OF A MULTIPARTY TRANSACTION INVOLVING ELECTRONIC FUNDS DISBURSEMENT | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Jun 5, 2025 | 2025/0182194 | RENT TO OWN TRANSACTION SYSTEM | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Oct 6, 2022 | 2022/0318773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PAYMENT CARD-BASED EXECUTION OF A MULTIPARTY TRANSACTION INVOLVING ELECTRONIC FUNDS DISBURSEMENT | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Jul 21, 2022 | 2022/0230234 | RENT TO OWN TRANSACTION SYSTEM | IT methods for management | RENT-A-CENTER WEST, INC. |
| Oct 21, 2021 | 2021/0326818 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRODUCTION OF A TRANSACTION MECHANISM TO AN E-COMMERCE WEBSITE WITHOUT NECESSITATION OF MULTIPARTY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION | IT methods for management | Rent-A-Center West, Inc. · patent 12,475,444 granted from it |
| Sep 9, 2021 | 2021/0279789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTRODUCTION OF A TRANSACTION MECHANISM TO AN E-COMMERCE WEBSITE WITHOUT NECESSITATION OF MULTIPARTY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION | IT methods for management | Rent-A-Center West, Inc. · patent 12,475,505 granted from it |
| Sep 9, 2021 | 2021/0279709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED EXECUTION OF A MULTIPARTY TRANSACTION INVOLVING ELECTRONIC FUNDS DISBURSEMENT | IT methods for management | Rent-A-Center West, Inc. |
| Oct 27, 2016 | 2016/0314522 | LEASE PURCHASE SYSTEM AND METHOD | IT methods for management | Rent-A-Center West, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: IT methods for management 2.
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.