Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
23 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 Upwork Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
23
23 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
3
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary, its own name
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
IT methods for management1
Computer technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Elance, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 publishedUpwork Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedUpwork Global Inc. a subsidiary
US, 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 |
|---|
| Aug 12, 2025 | 12,387,291 | Video super-resolution using deep neural networks | Computer technology | Upwork Inc. |
| Nov 30, 2021 | 11,188,876 | Matching method of providing personalized recommendations and a system thereof | IT methods for management | Upwork Inc. |
| May 12, 2020 | 10,650,332 | Buyer-provider matching algorithm | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. |
| Apr 28, 2020 | 10,635,412 | Online professional badge | Computer technology | Elance, Inc. |
| Nov 26, 2019 | 10,489,745 | Apparatus, system and method of clustering clients based on their hiring criteria in a job marketplace | Computer technology | Upwork Inc. |
| Oct 1, 2019 | 10,430,763 | Apparatus, method and system for classifying freelancers | Computer technology | Upwork Inc. |
| Mar 5, 2019 | 10,223,653 | Onboarding dashboard and methods and system thereof | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. |
| Feb 12, 2019 | 10,204,074 | Online professional services storefront | Telecommunications | Elance, Inc. |
| Dec 11, 2018 | 10,152,695 | Machine learning based system and method of calculating a match score and mapping the match score to a level | Computer technology | Elance, Inc. |
| Nov 6, 2018 | 10,121,153 | Online escrow service | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 29, 2018 | 2018/0089625 | DIGITAL WORKROOM | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. · patent 10,102,501 granted from it |
| Mar 22, 2018 | 2018/0082255 | DIGITAL WORKROOM | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. · patent 10,083,422 granted from it |
| Feb 16, 2012 | 2012/0041832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE FOR SERVICES HAVING A COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE | IT methods for management | Elance, Inc. · patent 8,706,607 granted from it |
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.