G06F 16/3331
Query processing
G06F16/3331 (Query processing) appears on 8,134 US grants and 10,135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 8,134
- Published applications
- 10,135
- Assignees
- 2,313
- Inventors
- 20,289
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 477 | 993 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Efficiently processing vector queries, with query vectors and filters, against vector indexes6 Oct 2026US 12,754,894 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Configurable, streaming hybrid-analytics platform6 Oct 2026US 12,754,936 B2Ankura Consulting Group, LLC
- Ranking-augmented generation for long documents6 Oct 2026US 12,754,938 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Information processing device, and information processing method6 Oct 2026US 12,754,940 B2Axell Corporation
- Query answering method based on large model, electronic device, storage medium, and intelligent agent6 Oct 2026US 12,754,941 B2Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for machine learning-based configuration, repair, and execution of software code using log analysis and prior configuration reuse8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310470 A1Constructor Education and Research Genossenschaft
- Method and system for generating answers based on information retrieval8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310696 A1LG Management Development Institute Co., Ltd.
- Educational apparatus, educational method, and recording medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310700 A1BOND Co., Ltd.
- Generative Agentic System for Processing Multi-Task Queries8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310701 A1Google Inc.
- Native retrieval augmented generation model(s)8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310702 A1Google Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- User interface and other enhancements for natural language information retrieval system and method1,120US 6,026,388 ATextwise LLC · 2000
- Concept-based search and retrieval system947US 6,675,159 B12004
- Natural language meta-search system and method856US 6,078,914 AOpen Text Corporation · 2000
- Information retrieval by natural language querying847US 6,601,026 B2Discern Communications, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus and methods for an information retrieval system that employs natural language processing of search results to improve overall precision832US 5,933,822 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1999