G06F 16/55
Clustering
Official title: Clustering; Classification
G06F16/55 (Clustering) appears on 780 US grants and 1,041 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 780
- Published applications
- 1,041
- Assignees
- 470
- Inventors
- 2,683
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2006 | 1 | 12 |
| 2007 | 1 | 8 |
| 2008 | 2 | 10 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 8 | 4 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 | 14 |
| 2013 | 14 | 21 |
| 2014 | 24 | 19 |
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| 2016 | 12 | 18 |
| 2017 | 11 | 18 |
| 2018 | 14 | 21 |
| 2019 | 24 | 70 |
| 2020 | 44 | 100 |
| 2021 | 79 | 166 |
| 2022 | 105 | 168 |
| 2023 | 126 | 111 |
| 2024 | 134 | 105 |
| 2025 | 90 | 79 |
| 2026 | 53 | 58 |
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Recent patents
- Method and system for aerial land recognition based on remote sensing images29 Sep 2026US 12,749,304 B1Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
- Document search for document retrieval using 3D model29 Sep 2026US 12,749,330 B2Georgetown University
- Computing systems and methods for retrieving data from a library for use by downstream systems18 Aug 2026US 12,711,174 B2Google Inc.
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- Automatic item identification during assisted checkout based on visual features11 Aug 2026US 12,705,957 B2RadiusAI, Inc.
- Automatic digital model security classification using artificial intelligence8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310713 A1The Aerospace Corporation
- Generative weather imaging for climate prediction1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300381 A1Fujitsu Limited
- Artificial intelligence assisted platform for multi-feature image analysis1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300385 A1University of Wyoming
- Provision of topics for incoming communications24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288858 A1Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
- Optimizing searching of a previously viewed scene for a head-mounted display device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278836 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and systems for content processing174US 8,385,971 B2Digimarc Corporation · 2013
- Intelligent observation and identification database system154US 7,439,847 B22008
- Similarity detection and clustering of images139US 7,801,893 B2IAC Search & Media, Inc. · 2010
- Methods and systems for content processing126US 8,755,837 B2Digimarc Corporation · 2014
- Forming connections between image collections103US 7,668,405 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2010