Company patents
The Pokémon Company
The Pokémon Company's patent strategy is overwhelmingly focused on its core 'Games & Gaming' business, representing 90.5% of its portfolio with 67 patents, showing consistent growth in 2024 (+33.3%) and 2025 (+15.0%) before a partial year decline so far in 2026. Surprisingly, despite its consumer focus, the company also shows a notable, albeit smaller, emerging focus in 'Operating Systems & Program Control,' which experienced a significant 200.0% year-over-year growth in 2025, suggesting a potential strategic interest in underlying platform technologies beyond just game content.
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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.
74 US filings (since 2023) · 6 categories · 7 themes
Games that integrate physical objects, real-world environments, or location data with virtual game elements to create interactive experiences.
Systems and architectures that enable game execution, content delivery, and interactive social experiences through cloud infrastructure and live streaming technologies.
Design and mechanics of physical board games, card games, and puzzles, often incorporating strategic elements, educational goals, or unique physical components.
Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.
Methods and systems for improving the quality of video streams, generating intermediate frames, or continuously locating and following objects within a sequence of images, even under occlusion.
Systems using artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor athlete performance, provide personalized training plans, predict physiological responses, or create virtual representations for feedback and analysis.
Systems that use user data, preferences, and machine learning to generate tailored advice, product recommendations, goal-setting plans, or contextual information for individuals across different domains.
Patents
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Video Quality & Encoding Optimization