G06F 16/21
Design, administration or maintenance of databases
G06F16/21 (Design, administration or maintenance of databases) appears on 12,994 US grants and 14,519 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 12,994
- Published applications
- 14,519
- Assignees
- 2,829
- Inventors
- 27,615
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 17 | 0 |
| 1999 | 28 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 18 | 4 |
| 2002 | 28 | 49 |
| 2003 | 39 | 74 |
| 2004 | 32 | 77 |
| 2005 | 30 | 144 |
| 2006 | 62 | 120 |
| 2007 | 71 | 152 |
| 2008 | 61 | 186 |
| 2009 | 86 | 217 |
| 2010 | 138 | 202 |
| 2011 | 145 | 222 |
| 2012 | 210 | 356 |
| 2013 | 325 | 584 |
| 2014 | 461 | 782 |
| 2015 | 567 | 808 |
| 2016 | 715 | 862 |
| 2017 | 705 | 863 |
| 2018 | 692 | 842 |
| 2019 | 935 | 945 |
| 2020 | 1025 | 1036 |
| 2021 | 1104 | 1162 |
| 2022 | 1258 | 1156 |
| 2023 | 1189 | 1086 |
| 2024 | 1221 | 968 |
| 2025 | 1086 | 860 |
| 2026 | 685 | 762 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Access control interface for managing entities and permissions6 Oct 2026US 12,754,655 B2Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Generating and utilizing webpage policies6 Oct 2026US 12,754,662 B2Taboola.Com Ltd.
- User-centric and LLM-enhanced adaptive ETL code synthesis6 Oct 2026US 12,754,718 B2Hitachi, Ltd.
- Fine-grained virtualization resource provisioning for in-place database scaling6 Oct 2026US 12,754,772 B2Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Computer-based systems configured for a cloud-first multifunction API cluster providing microservices capable of both batch and real-time processing and method and use thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,754,783 B2Capital One Services, LLC
- Access control tower8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310332 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Access control interface for managing entities and permissions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310333 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Synchronizing data recovery logs for snapshot-based data recovery in a distributed deduplication system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310555 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Methods and systems configured to eliminate the use of write ahead logs in paged direct mapping key-value stores8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310632 A1QiStor Inc.
- Automatic implementation of attributes for use in entity resolution8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310633 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for reconstructing prior versions of indexes using records indicating changes between successive versions of the indexes1,547US 5,347,653 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- Digital information infrastructure and method for security designated data and with granular data stores1,001US 8,468,244 B2Digital Doors, Inc. · 2013
- Method and system for processing data records856US 7,403,942 B1Seisint, Inc. · 2008
- Ephemeral gallery of ephemeral messages623US 9,537,811 B2Snap Inc. · 2017
- Methods and apparatus for structured partitioning of management information503US 7,899,780 B1EMC Corporation · 2011