Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
10 patents granted to the 4 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 York Space Systems Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
10
10 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 3 in 2024 and 1 in 2023
Applications published
9
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
4
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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
Telecommunications6
Digital communication1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
8 publishedEmergent Space Technologies, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedYORK SPACE SYSTEMS LLC its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedYork Space Systems LLC its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 publishedNames not counted (1)
NewSpace Systems LLC
Most of its patents print ZA; this name counts in GB, NZ, US. 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 |
|---|
| Jun 3, 2025 | 12,323,223 | System and method for configuring a communications device for space-terrestrial communications | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 12,184,394 | Unified analytics engine | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Aug 27, 2024 | 12,074,685 | Satellite contact customization | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Mar 12, 2024 | 11,929,819 | System and method for configuring a communications device for space-terrestrial communications | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Sep 26, 2023 | 11,770,184 | Satellite contact customization | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Oct 4, 2022 | 11,463,161 | System and method for authorizing access in satellite communications | Digital communication | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Jan 18, 2022 | 11,228,361 | System and method for configuring a communications device for space-terrestrial communications | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Nov 17, 2020 | 10,841,000 | System and method for authorizing access in satellite communications | Digital communication | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. |
| Mar 10, 2020 | 10,583,940 | Pressurized payload compartment and mission agnostic space vehicle including the same | Transport | YORK SPACE SYSTEMS LLC |
| Dec 28, 2010 | 7,860,617 | Geosynchronous spacecraft autonomous navigation | Transport | Emergent Space Technologies, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Oct 17, 2024 | 2024/0348325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR SPACE-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 12,323,223 granted from it |
| Apr 18, 2024 | 2024/0129027 | UNIFIED ANALYTICS ENGINE | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 12,184,394 granted from it |
| Dec 21, 2023 | 2023/0412260 | SATELLITE CONTACT CUSTOMIZATION | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 12,074,685 granted from it |
| Nov 24, 2022 | 2022/0376777 | SATELLITE CONTACT CUSTOMIZATION | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 11,770,184 granted from it |
| Jul 7, 2022 | 2022/0216911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR SPACE-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 11,929,819 granted from it |
| Apr 29, 2021 | 2021/0126704 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE FOR SPACE-TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS | Telecommunications | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 11,228,361 granted from it |
| Feb 11, 2021 | 2021/0044348 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING ACCESS IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | Digital communication | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 11,463,161 granted from it |
| Sep 3, 2020 | 2020/0280366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING ACCESS IN SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | Digital communication | ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. · patent 10,841,000 granted from it |
| Sep 8, 2016 | 2016/0257433 | MISSION AGNOSTIC SPACE VEHICLE | Transport | York Space Systems LLC · patent 10,583,940 granted from it |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Telecommunications 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.