G06F 15/00
Digital computers in general
Official title: Digital computers in general (details G06F1/00 – G06F13/00); Data processing equipment in general
G06F15/00 (Digital computers in general) appears on 18,036 US grants and 16,020 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 18,036
- Published applications
- 16,020
- Assignees
- 3,456
- Inventors
- 28,436
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 66 | 0 |
| 1977 | 71 | 0 |
| 1978 | 80 | 0 |
| 1979 | 78 | 0 |
| 1980 | 53 | 0 |
| 1981 | 63 | 0 |
| 1982 | 66 | 0 |
| 1983 | 60 | 0 |
| 1984 | 86 | 0 |
| 1985 | 91 | 0 |
| 1986 | 85 | 0 |
| 1987 | 115 | 0 |
| 1988 | 131 | 0 |
| 1989 | 181 | 0 |
| 1990 | 154 | 0 |
| 1991 | 148 | 0 |
| 1992 | 183 | 0 |
| 1993 | 220 | 0 |
| 1994 | 219 | 0 |
| 1995 | 233 | 0 |
| 1996 | 296 | 0 |
| 1997 | 282 | 0 |
| 1998 | 357 | 0 |
| 1999 | 283 | 0 |
| 2000 | 264 | 0 |
| 2001 | 189 | 54 |
| 2002 | 185 | 210 |
| 2003 | 181 | 291 |
| 2004 | 188 | 358 |
| 2005 | 174 | 308 |
| 2006 | 225 | 311 |
| 2007 | 196 | 337 |
| 2008 | 233 | 441 |
| 2009 | 296 | 598 |
| 2010 | 375 | 466 |
| 2011 | 393 | 637 |
| 2012 | 444 | 623 |
| 2013 | 585 | 1059 |
| 2014 | 821 | 979 |
| 2015 | 899 | 724 |
| 2016 | 900 | 735 |
| 2017 | 901 | 793 |
| 2018 | 745 | 927 |
| 2019 | 911 | 980 |
| 2020 | 995 | 838 |
| 2021 | 869 | 761 |
| 2022 | 766 | 875 |
| 2023 | 804 | 813 |
| 2024 | 806 | 733 |
| 2025 | 677 | 625 |
| 2026 | 413 | 544 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 15/16Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an8,876
- G06F 15/76Architectures of general purpose stored program computers7,847
- G06F 15/02Manually operated with input through keyboard and computation using a built-in program1,721
- G06F 15/08Digital computers in general: using a plugboard for programming14
- G06F 15/04Programmed simultaneously with the introduction of data to be processed5
Recent patents
- Audio-visual navigation and communication dynamic memory architectures6 Oct 2026US 12,754,651 B2Aq Media, Inc.
- Remote direct memory access in multi-tier memory systems6 Oct 2026US 12,754,698 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Dataflow-based general-purpose processor architectures with feedforward register lanes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,739 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
- System and method for facilitating dynamic command management in a network interface controller (NIC)6 Oct 2026US 12,754,857 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Information processing device, information processing method, cooking robot, cooking method, and cooking equipment6 Oct 2026US 12,754,875 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Processor-in-memory (pim) command truth table definition8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310628 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Interpreter-Driven System-On-Chip Controller8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311008 A1Google Inc.
- Mobile iot edge device using 3d-die stacking re-configurable processor module with 5g processor-independent modem8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313025 A1Arbor Company, LLLP
- Water buoy data system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298630 A1
- Cross-site high-availability distributed cloud storage system to provide multiple virtual channels between storage nodes1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299790 A1NetApp, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system1,971US 5,899,855 AHealth Hero Network, Inc. · 1999
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- Modular microprocessor-based health monitoring system1,498US 5,307,263 ARaya Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Diabetes management system and apparatus1,437US 5,019,974 ADiva Medical Systems bv · 1991
- Immunoglobulin variants1,380US 5,821,337 AGenentech, Inc. · 1998