G06F 15/16
Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an
Official title: Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs {(coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B)}
G06F15/16 (Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an) appears on 8,876 US grants and 7,887 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 8,876
- Published applications
- 7,887
- Assignees
- 1,965
- Inventors
- 15,304
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | 0 |
| 1977 | 15 | 0 |
| 1978 | 15 | 0 |
| 1979 | 11 | 0 |
| 1980 | 19 | 0 |
| 1981 | 19 | 0 |
| 1982 | 23 | 0 |
| 1983 | 27 | 0 |
| 1984 | 37 | 0 |
| 1985 | 43 | 0 |
| 1986 | 44 | 0 |
| 1987 | 58 | 0 |
| 1988 | 46 | 0 |
| 1989 | 71 | 0 |
| 1990 | 68 | 0 |
| 1991 | 65 | 0 |
| 1992 | 98 | 0 |
| 1993 | 107 | 0 |
| 1994 | 112 | 0 |
| 1995 | 136 | 0 |
| 1996 | 144 | 0 |
| 1997 | 132 | 0 |
| 1998 | 158 | 0 |
| 1999 | 116 | 0 |
| 2000 | 101 | 0 |
| 2001 | 58 | 21 |
| 2002 | 63 | 82 |
| 2003 | 57 | 90 |
| 2004 | 62 | 106 |
| 2005 | 62 | 111 |
| 2006 | 79 | 132 |
| 2007 | 70 | 141 |
| 2008 | 94 | 203 |
| 2009 | 132 | 384 |
| 2010 | 193 | 300 |
| 2011 | 200 | 402 |
| 2012 | 281 | 404 |
| 2013 | 384 | 661 |
| 2014 | 573 | 603 |
| 2015 | 605 | 422 |
| 2016 | 574 | 383 |
| 2017 | 517 | 379 |
| 2018 | 410 | 411 |
| 2019 | 454 | 433 |
| 2020 | 464 | 374 |
| 2021 | 390 | 317 |
| 2022 | 328 | 383 |
| 2023 | 337 | 338 |
| 2024 | 374 | 300 |
| 2025 | 287 | 249 |
| 2026 | 153 | 258 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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.
- 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
- Cache allocation system6 Oct 2026US 12,756,676 B2Intel Corporation
- Provisioning a device to be an authentication device6 Oct 2026US 12,756,702 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Cross-site high-availability distributed cloud storage system to provide multiple virtual channels between storage nodes1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299790 A1NetApp, Inc.
- System with cache-coherent memory and server-linking switch1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300204 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Device with data processing engine array that enables partial reconfiguration1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300216 A1Xilinx, Inc.
- Optimized sensor fusion in deep learning accelerator with integrated random access memory1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300728 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Collective communication low latency proxy ring offload1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303404 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for customized electronic identification of desirable objects1,946US 6,029,195 A2000
- System and method for preserving message order while employing both programmed I/O and DMA operations1,160US 5,887,134 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1999
- Viral distribution of battery management parameters844US 9,337,668 B2Zoll Circulation, Inc. · 2016
- Remote access and geographically distributed computers in a globally addressable storage environment803US 5,987,506 AMangosoft Corporation · 1999
- Remote file services network-infrastructure cache611US 6,085,234 AINCA Technology, Inc. · 2000