G06F 13/122
Where hardware performs an i/o function other than control of data transfer
Official title: {where hardware performs an I/O function other than control of data transfer}
G06F13/122 (Where hardware performs an i/o function other than control of data transfer) appears on 468 US grants and 278 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Reduced controller loading and peripheral usage for displacement measurement device excitation6 Jan 2026US 12,517,844 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Systems of semiconductor devices and operating methods thereof25 Nov 2025US 12,481,603 B2SK hynix Inc.
- Input/output processor power management4 Nov 2025US 12,461,867 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Method and system for making functional devices available to participants of meetings28 Oct 2025US 12,455,848 B2Barco N.V.
- Programmatic control of device I/O, EMF quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol19 Aug 2025US 12,393,528 B2
- Information processing system, peripheral device, and information processing method25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178516 A1Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
- Systems of semiconductor devices and operating methods thereof19 Mar 2026US 2026/0079858 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Bus control unit, processing apparatus, system-on-chip, bus control method, and computer storage medium19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050557 A1Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd.
- Programmatic control of device i/o; emf quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348441 A1
- Input/Output Filter Unit for Graphics Processing Unit14 Aug 2025US 2025/0259261 A1Imagination Technologies Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiprocessor system338US 4,228,496 ATandem Computers Incorporated · 1980
- Method and means for path independent device reservation and reconnection in a multi-CPU and shared device access system271US 4,207,609 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1980
- System and method for sharing multiple storage arrays by dedicating adapters as primary controller and secondary controller for arrays reside in different host computers196US 5,768,623 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Balancing data-processing work loads174US 4,403,286 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1983
- Enhanced multi-pathing to an array of storage devices167US 6,145,028 ANCR Corporation · 2000