G06F 16/51
Indexing
Official title: Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G06F16/51 (Indexing) appears on 3,113 US grants and 3,866 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 3,113
- Published applications
- 3,866
- Assignees
- 1,117
- Inventors
- 6,207
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 6 | 29 |
| 2003 | 12 | 36 |
| 2004 | 17 | 44 |
| 2005 | 13 | 56 |
| 2006 | 16 | 59 |
| 2007 | 22 | 66 |
| 2008 | 22 | 96 |
| 2009 | 28 | 95 |
| 2010 | 59 | 78 |
| 2011 | 62 | 117 |
| 2012 | 78 | 109 |
| 2013 | 113 | 234 |
| 2014 | 150 | 202 |
| 2015 | 208 | 272 |
| 2016 | 218 | 326 |
| 2017 | 259 | 366 |
| 2018 | 233 | 298 |
| 2019 | 314 | 275 |
| 2020 | 267 | 292 |
| 2021 | 245 | 225 |
| 2022 | 235 | 184 |
| 2023 | 198 | 140 |
| 2024 | 152 | 97 |
| 2025 | 106 | 102 |
| 2026 | 48 | 64 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Systems and Methods for Communicating Vehicle-Related Image Data1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300393 A1Geotab Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Microwave ablation system with user-controlled ablation size and method of use1,072US 9,277,969 B2Covidien LP · 2016
- Method and apparatus for archiving and visualizing digital images454US 7,970,240 B1Google Inc. · 2011
- Method and apparatus for progressively deleting media objects from storage439US 7,751,628 B12010
- System, method, and program for sharing photos via the internet429US 7,778,973 B22010
- Hierarchical data storage management411US 6,330,572 B1Imation Corp. · 2001