G06F 13/4081
Live connection to bus
Official title: {Live connection to bus, e.g. hot-plugging (current or voltage limitation during live insertion H02H9/004)}
G06F13/4081 (Live connection to bus) appears on 1,281 US grants and 1,264 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,281
- Published applications
- 1,264
- Assignees
- 509
- Inventors
- 2,764
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 39 | 16 |
| 2026 | 15 | 27 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and device for detecting a connection of a chip to a printing device28 Jul 2026US 12,693,989 B2Guangzhou Zhono Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for modular artificial intelligence (ai) appliances16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203240 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Server Information Handling System Component Management System9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195284 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Hot-plug protection systems and devices with status indicators2 Jul 2026US 2026/0187008 A1Aivres Systems Inc.
- Power bank having function of docking station2 Jul 2026US 2026/0187009 A1Tianjin Synergy Groups Co., Ltd.
- Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus4 Jun 2026US 2026/0154222 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Medical monitoring hub711US 9,436,645 B2Masimo Corporation · 2016
- Hot removable and insertion of attachments on fully initialized computer systems358US 5,386,567 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Medical monitoring hub326US 9,993,207 B2Masimo Corporation · 2018
- Medical monitoring hub305US 9,913,617 B2Masimo Corporation · 2018
- Method and apparatus for controlled removal and insertion of circuit modules254US 4,835,737 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories · 1989