G06F 1/26
Power supply means
Official title: Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof (for memories G11C)
G06F1/26 (Power supply means) appears on 35,883 US grants and 40,632 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 35,883
- Published applications
- 40,632
- Assignees
- 5,304
- Inventors
- 59,706
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 12 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 318 | 107 |
| 2002 | 303 | 475 |
| 2003 | 368 | 621 |
| 2004 | 425 | 773 |
| 2005 | 424 | 926 |
| 2006 | 641 | 968 |
| 2007 | 599 | 1038 |
| 2008 | 718 | 1074 |
| 2009 | 713 | 1236 |
| 2010 | 851 | 1286 |
| 2011 | 967 | 1562 |
| 2012 | 1181 | 1734 |
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| 2014 | 1691 | 2571 |
| 2015 | 2004 | 2425 |
| 2016 | 2245 | 2453 |
| 2017 | 2442 | 2223 |
| 2018 | 2035 | 2104 |
| 2019 | 2322 | 2378 |
| 2020 | 2273 | 2149 |
| 2021 | 2012 | 2039 |
| 2022 | 2018 | 1929 |
| 2023 | 1862 | 1905 |
| 2024 | 1739 | 1654 |
| 2025 | 1573 | 1528 |
| 2026 | 946 | 1251 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 1/32Means for saving power25,433
- G06F 1/266Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer3,657
- G06F 1/28Supervision thereof3,657
- G06F 1/30Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption3,230
- G06F 1/263Arrangements for using multiple switchable power supplies2,778
Recent patents
- Information handling system battery connector detection for system reset6 Oct 2026US 12,754,596 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Processor power management6 Oct 2026US 12,754,597 B2Intel Corporation
- Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling for memory in heterogeneous core architectures6 Oct 2026US 12,754,598 B2Intel Corporation
- Method and system for supporting memory functions during low power modes of a portable computing device (PCD)6 Oct 2026US 12,754,599 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Apparatus and method for implementing O-cloud node C-state change6 Oct 2026US 12,754,600 B2Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
- Secondary Display for a Shopping Cart8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307702 A1Maplebear Inc.
- Portable companion device for security, energy, and global communications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310258 A1R3Di Industries, Inc.
- Power distribution architecture for gpu accelerator array systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310271 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Integrated circuit capable of performing dynamic voltage and frequency scaling operation based on workload and operating method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310272 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Asymmetrical Power Sharing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310273 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiple sensors with one sensor affecting a second sensor's output or interpretation1,559US 9,757,128 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Multiple motor control for powered medical device1,555US 9,788,836 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Surgical instrument control circuit having a safety processor1,553US 9,690,362 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Adjunct with integrated sensors to quantify tissue compression1,540US 9,724,094 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017
- Monitoring device degradation based on component evaluation1,519US 9,737,301 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2017