Verizon Communications (VZ)
NYSE: VZ · Telephone Communications (No Radiotelephone) · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026400 patents granted to the 19 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 Verizon Communications’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
400
399 utility, 1 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
958
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
19
a subsidiary, its own name, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name19 counted
Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
563 published
Verizon Business Global LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
95 published
Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
147 published
Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
68 published
Verizon Communications Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
7 published
VERIZON NEW JERSEY INC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
18 published
MCI Communications Services, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
29 published
GTE Wireless Incorporated a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
9 published
Verizon New York Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 published
Bell Atlantic Corporation a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Verizon Virginia LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
5 published
Verizon New England Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 published
Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
VERIZON NEW JERSEY INC. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 published
Verizon Online LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
MCI International, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Verizon Pennsylvania LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Verizon Business Global LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Verizon New England Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2020 | 2020/0213922 | HANDING OVER A USER DEVICE FROM ONE TECHNOLOGY TO ANOTHER | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 11,129,074 granted from it |
| Jun 6, 2019 | 2019/0173924 | USER DEVICE SELECTION | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,484,436 granted from it |
| Feb 7, 2019 | 2019/0045410 | PACKET DATA NETWORK GATEWAY HANDOFF | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 11,057,810 granted from it |
| Nov 8, 2018 | 2018/0324666 | HANDING OVER A USER DEVICE FROM ONE TECHNOLOGY TO ANOTHER | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,624,012 granted from it |
| Oct 11, 2018 | 2018/0295665 | LOCAL CALL SERVICE CONTROL FUNCTION SERVER SELECTION | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,264,619 granted from it |
| Aug 30, 2018 | 2018/0247655 | PERSONAL ASSISTANT APPLICATION | Computer technology | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,692,505 granted from it |
| May 24, 2018 | 2018/0146395 | DYNAMICALLY PROVISIONING SUBSCRIBERS TO MANAGE NETWORK TRAFFIC | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,721,647 granted from it |
| Mar 15, 2018 | 2018/0075435 | MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT | IT methods for management | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,360,553 granted from it |
| Jan 11, 2018 | 2018/0013695 | PROVIDING QUALITY OF SERVICE BASED ON BANDWIDTH | Digital communication | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,686,723 granted from it |
| Nov 30, 2017 | 2017/0345055 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT TO USER DEVICES BASED ON PRIOR CONTENT CONSUMPTION | IT methods for management | Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless · patent 10,861,046 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.