G06F 16/221
Column-oriented storage
Official title: {Column-oriented storage; Management thereof}
G06F16/221 (Column-oriented storage) appears on 1,986 US grants and 2,129 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,986
- Published applications
- 2,129
- Assignees
- 442
- Inventors
- 3,583
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2022 | 281 | 214 |
| 2023 | 201 | 163 |
| 2024 | 207 | 131 |
| 2025 | 151 | 106 |
| 2026 | 104 | 88 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Weighted retrieval for in-context tabular model24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288744 A1The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mass data storage and retrieval system997US 5,504,873 AE-Systems, Inc. · 1996
- Database system with methodology for storing a database table by vertically partitioning all columns of the table469US 5,794,229 ASybase, Inc. · 1998
- Consistent data storage in an object cache457US 6,128,627 AInktomi Corporation · 2000
- Method, system, and program for a policy based storage manager274US 7,269,612 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2007
- Database system with buffer manager providing per page native data compression and decompression250US 5,794,228 ASybase, Inc. · 1998