G06F 13/40
Bus structure
Official title: Bus structure {(for computer networks G06F15/163; for optical bus networks H04B10/25)}
G06F13/40 (Bus structure) appears on 16,758 US grants and 15,776 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 15,776
- Assignees
- 3,052
- Inventors
- 26,464
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 15 | 0 |
| 1981 | 11 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 14 | 0 |
| 1984 | 27 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 352 | 0 |
| 2000 | 350 | 0 |
| 2001 | 330 | 76 |
| 2002 | 294 | 258 |
| 2003 | 303 | 334 |
| 2004 | 325 | 399 |
| 2005 | 274 | 398 |
| 2006 | 367 | 398 |
| 2007 | 265 | 370 |
| 2008 | 296 | 405 |
| 2009 | 278 | 360 |
| 2010 | 346 | 324 |
| 2011 | 337 | 378 |
| 2012 | 333 | 430 |
| 2013 | 367 | 505 |
| 2014 | 441 | 727 |
| 2015 | 611 | 847 |
| 2016 | 669 | 1109 |
| 2017 | 910 | 1215 |
| 2018 | 1130 | 1066 |
| 2019 | 1268 | 977 |
| 2020 | 1069 | 891 |
| 2021 | 814 | 839 |
| 2022 | 813 | 843 |
| 2023 | 805 | 738 |
| 2024 | 783 | 689 |
| 2025 | 683 | 601 |
| 2026 | 392 | 599 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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