G06F 16/41
Indexing
Official title: Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F16/41 (Indexing) appears on 1,051 US grants and 1,436 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,436
- Assignees
- 465
- Inventors
- 2,352
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 64 | 53 |
| 2024 | 75 | 69 |
| 2025 | 51 | 52 |
| 2026 | 28 | 44 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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