G06F 16/2237
Vectors, bitmaps or matrices
Official title: {Vectors, bitmaps or matrices}
G06F16/2237 (Vectors, bitmaps or matrices) appears on 1,321 US grants and 1,571 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,321
- Published applications
- 1,571
- Assignees
- 526
- Inventors
- 3,131
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2012 | 7 | 20 |
| 2013 | 10 | 21 |
| 2014 | 22 | 39 |
| 2015 | 29 | 84 |
| 2016 | 54 | 103 |
| 2017 | 85 | 97 |
| 2018 | 67 | 89 |
| 2019 | 118 | 109 |
| 2020 | 123 | 129 |
| 2021 | 118 | 149 |
| 2022 | 137 | 112 |
| 2023 | 129 | 95 |
| 2024 | 110 | 86 |
| 2025 | 111 | 153 |
| 2026 | 125 | 230 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Using condensed bitmap representation for filtering of datasets6 Oct 2026US 12,754,893 B2Workday, Inc.
- Efficiently processing vector queries, with query vectors and filters, against vector indexes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,894 B2Oracle International Corporation
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- Auto-maintenance of vector indexes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310650 A1Google Inc.
- Adaptive vector query processing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310670 A1Google Inc.
- Fine-grained segmentation of content items for tiered cloud archival using machine-learned models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310721 A1Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- System and method for generating confidence intervals of a predicted value for an entity which is calibrated based on an ad hoc entity category associated with the entity8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312953 A1Shopify Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- SQL-based database system with improved indexing methodology570US 5,918,225 ASybase, Inc. · 1999
- Search engine using indexing method for storing and retrieving data325US 6,278,992 B12001
- Encoded-vector indices for decision support and warehousing204US 5,706,495 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Use of primary and secondary indexes to facilitate aggregation of records of an OLAP data cube191US 7,761,407 B1Medallia, Inc. · 2010
- Shard reorganization based on dimensional description in sharded storage systems190US 9,667,720 B1EMC IP Holding Company LLC · 2017