D06F 33/44
Control of the operating time
Official title: Control of the operating time, e.g. reduction of overall operating time
D06F33/44 (Control of the operating time) appears on 80 US grants and 105 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 80
- Published applications
- 105
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 263
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2019 | 1 | 9 |
| 2020 | 3 | 13 |
| 2021 | 9 | 15 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 | 15 |
| 2025 | 19 | 12 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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