Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
24 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 Warner Music Group Corp.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
24
24 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
6
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
5
a subsidiary
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
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Warner Music Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
4 publishedInter Ice, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedASYLUM CORPORATION a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedRyKo, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 publishedRykodisc a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedNames not counted (6)
OPUS a.s.
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in SK. 8 granted and 7 published under it are not counted.
Nous SAS
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in FR. 7 granted and 6 published under it are not counted.
Nous SAS
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in FR. 0 granted and 7 published under it are not counted.
OPUS a.s.
Most of its patents print PL; this name counts in SK. 0 granted and 3 published under it are not counted.
Peerless S.A. de C.V.
Most of its patents print CA; this name counts in MX. 3 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
OPUS a.s.
Most of its patents print BE; this name counts in SK. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Nov 15, 2022 | 11,503,388 | Loudspeaker enclosures and loudspeaker devices | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Dec 8, 2020 | 10,861,024 | Systems, methods, and media for restricting playback functionality of a media device in response to detecting unauthorized content | IT methods for management | Warner Music Inc. |
| Sep 1, 2020 | 10,764,661 | Loudspeaker enclosures and loudspeaker devices | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Dec 17, 2013 | 8,612,860 | Systems, methods, and media for coordinating the presentation of media with an event | Digital communication | Warner Music Inc. |
| Apr 24, 2012 | 8,166,093 | Method and apparatus for processing multimedia programs for play on incompatible devices | Digital communication | Warner Music Inc. |
| Nov 18, 2008 | 7,454,257 | Apparatus and method for down converting multichannel programs to dual channel programs using a smart coefficient generator | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Feb 19, 2008 | 7,333,863 | Recording and playback control system | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Apr 17, 2007 | 7,206,766 | Method and apparatus for distributing multimedia programs | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Apr 10, 2007 | 7,203,154 | Recording and playback of multi-channel digital audio having different resolutions for different channels | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Mar 27, 2007 | 7,197,458 | Method and system for verifying derivative digital files automatically | Telecommunications | Warner Music Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| May 14, 2015 | 2015/0128879 | RETRACTABLE LEASH | Other special machines | RyKo, LLC |
| Aug 7, 2014 | 2014/0223612 | Modular Atomic Force Microscope | Measurement | ASYLUM CORPORATION |
| Mar 19, 2009 | 2009/0074213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DOWN CONVERTING MULTICHANNEL PROGRAMS TO DUAL CHANNEL PROGRAMS USING A SMART COEFFICIENT GENERATOR | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. |
| Mar 30, 2006 | 2006/0069651 | Method and apparatus for distributing multimedia programs | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. · patent 7,206,766 granted from it |
| Apr 28, 2005 | 2005/0088934 | Recording and playback of multi-channel digital audio having different resolutions for different channels | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. · patent 7,203,154 granted from it |
| Oct 9, 2003 | 2003/0191548 | Recording and playback of multi-channel digital audio having different resolutions for different channels | Audio-visual technology | Warner Music Inc. · patent 6,898,173 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.