Company Analysis

WEX Inc. (WEX)

NYSE: WEX · Services-Business Services, NEC · Portland, ME · filing with the SEC since 2004
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◀ Past 6.6● Present 6.1▶ Future 4.1

Patents

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

7 patents granted to the 5 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 WEX Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
7
7 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
5
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
5
its own name, a subsidiary, a former name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'13'15'16'19'20'21'22'23
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
Chemical engineering1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
WEX COMPANIES, INC. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
6 granted
1 published
WEX, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
2 published
Fleet One, LLC. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
OPTAL LIMITED a subsidiary
GB, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
Wright Express Corporation a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
May 30, 202311,660,551Household wastewater filterChemical engineeringWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Nov 29, 202211,511,987Methods and systems for fuel transaction product detectionIT methods for managementWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Oct 27, 202010,814,257Household wastewater filterEnvironmental technologyWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Apr 16, 201910,262,325Methods and systems for mobile fleet card activationIT methods for managementWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Nov 15, 20169,494,445Methods and systems for determining optimum fuel stationMeasurementWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Feb 17, 20158,959,619Graphical image password authentication methodDigital communicationFleet One, LLC.
Jun 4, 20138,457,874Fuel and vehicle monitoring methods and systemsIT methods for managementWEX COMPANIES, INC.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
May 13, 20212021/0139312METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FUEL TRANSACTION PRODUCT DETECTIONIT methods for managementWEX, Inc. · patent 11,511,987 granted from it
Nov 3, 20162016/0321665METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MOBILE FLEET CARD ACTIVATIONIT methods for managementWEX, Inc. · patent 10,262,325 granted from it
Dec 3, 20152015/0348030SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENTIT methods for managementOPTAL LIMITED
Mar 26, 20152015/0088409METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING OPTIMUM FUEL STATIONMeasurementWEX COMPANIES, INC. · patent 9,494,445 granted from it
Dec 22, 20112011/0313646Fuel and Vehicle Monitoring Methods and SystemsIT methods for managementWright Express Corporation · patent 8,457,874 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.

SI Assistanton WEX · research, not advice