Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
6 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 WW International, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
6
6 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
Against none in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
23
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a former name, 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
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Weight Watchers International, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
7 publishedWeight Watchers International, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
10 publishedWW International, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
6 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 31, 2023 | 11,803,781 | Machine learning for nutrient quantity estimation in score-based diets and methods of use thereof | Medical technology | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Nov 26, 2013 | 8,595,023 | Weight control system with meal plan and journal | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Feb 26, 2013 | 8,382,482 | Processes and systems for achieving and assisting in improved nutrition based on food energy data and relative healthfulness data | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Apr 21, 2009 | 7,523,040 | Software and hardware system for enabling weight control | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Apr 22, 2008 | 7,361,143 | Weight control system having varying meal plans and meal planning schemes | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Apr 12, 2005 | 6,878,885 | Process for controlling body weight | Medical technology | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 11, 2025 | 2025/0285035 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR NUTRIENT QUANTITY ESTIMATION IN SCORE-BASED DIETS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Medical technology | WW International, Inc. |
| Jun 6, 2024 | 2024/0185140 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR NUTRIENT QUANTITY ESTIMATION IN SCORE-BASED DIETS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Medical technology | WW International, Inc. |
| Dec 28, 2023 | 2023/0420109 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING AND ASSISTING IN IMPROVED NUTRITION BASED ON FOOD ENERGY DATA AND RELATIVE HEALTHFULNESS DATA | IT methods for management | WW International, Inc. |
| Mar 16, 2023 | 2023/0079862 | MACHINE LEARNING FOR NUTRIENT QUANTITY ESTIMATION IN SCORE-BASED DIETS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Medical technology | WW International, Inc. · patent 11,803,781 granted from it |
| Sep 29, 2022 | 2022/0310236 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING AND ASSISTING IN IMPROVED NUTRITION BASED ON FOOD ENERGY DATA AND RELATIVE HEALTHFULNESS DATA | IT methods for management | WW International, Inc. |
| Apr 29, 2021 | 2021/0125700 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING AND ASSISTING IN IMPROVED NUTRITION BASED ON FOOD ENERGY DATA AND RELATIVE HEALTHFULNESS DATA | IT methods for management | WW International, Inc. |
| Feb 6, 2020 | 2020/0043365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WEIGHT CONTROL BY UTILIZING VISUAL TRACKING OF LIVING FACTOR(S) | Control | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Mar 7, 2019 | 2019/0073921 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING AND ASSISTING IN IMPROVED NUTRITION BASED ON FOOD ENERGY DATA AND RELATIVE HEALTHFULNESS DATA | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Jun 7, 2018 | 2018/0158364 | PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR ACHIEVING AND ASSISTING IN IMPROVED NUTRITION BASED ON FOOD ENERGY DATA AND RELATIVE HEALTHFULNESS DATA | IT methods for management | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
| Feb 1, 2018 | 2018/0033334 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WEIGHT CONTROL BY UTILIZING VISUAL TRACKING OF LIVING FACTOR(S) | Control | Weight Watchers International, Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Medical technology 2.
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.