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WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (WBTN)

Nasdaq: WBTN · Miscellaneous Publishing · Los Angeles, CA · filing with the SEC since 2023
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

22 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 WEBTOON Entertainment Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
22
22 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
4
Against 6 in 2024 and 3 in 2023
Applications published
30
4 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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 technology12
Digital communication4
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name2 counted
NAVER WEBTOON LTD. a subsidiary
KR, as the owner printed on each patent
22 granted
4 published
NAVER WEBTOON LTD. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in KR
0 granted
26 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 30, 202512,511,805Method for rearranging webcomic content and device thereforComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Dec 16, 202512,499,593Method and apparatus for transforming input image based on target style and target color informationComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Aug 12, 202512,386,903Method and system for providing contentsComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Mar 25, 202512,260,606Method, apparatus, and program for detecting mark by using image matchingComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Nov 12, 202412,141,887Image synthesis device and method for embedding watermarkComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Aug 6, 202412,056,801Method for coloring a target image, and device and computer program thereforComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jul 30, 202412,052,477Comment management method and system for displaying commentsDigital communicationNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jun 4, 202412,003,597Method for detecting unauthorized copying of content and service server using sameDigital communicationNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Mar 5, 202411,922,543Device and method for coloring sketch image with color pointerComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jan 30, 202411,887,224Method, apparatus, and computer program for completing painting of image, and method, apparatus, and computer program for training artificial neural networkComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Sep 18, 20252025/0292372METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM TO PREVENT LEARNING TO PROTECT IMAGESComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jul 3, 20252025/0217027METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Mar 6, 20252025/0078363METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Feb 20, 20252025/0061237METHODS, COMPUTER DEVICES, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORD MEDIA FOR LEARNING OF WATERMARKING MODEL USING COMPLEX ATTACKComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Dec 26, 20242024/0427833METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Nov 14, 20242024/0378780METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING IMAGEComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Oct 17, 20242024/0348890COMMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING COMMENTSDigital communicationNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jul 4, 20242024/0220545METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENTSComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD. · patent 12,386,903 granted from it
Jun 13, 20242024/0193741METHOD FOR CORRECTING COLORED IMAGE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK, AND DEVICE THEREFORComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
Jun 6, 20242024/0185623METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TEXT INFORMATION INCLUDING TEXT EXTRACTED FROM CONTENT INCLUDING IMAGEComputer technologyNAVER WEBTOON LTD.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 10 · Digital communication 1.

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.

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