G06F 16/906
Clustering
Official title: Clustering; Classification
G06F16/906 (Clustering) appears on 1,871 US grants and 2,487 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,871
- Published applications
- 2,487
- Assignees
- 868
- Inventors
- 6,060
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2005 | 2 | 9 |
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| 2011 | 10 | 12 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8 |
| 2013 | 16 | 9 |
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| 2017 | 12 | 25 |
| 2018 | 14 | 36 |
| 2019 | 69 | 188 |
| 2020 | 112 | 318 |
| 2021 | 194 | 414 |
| 2022 | 315 | 353 |
| 2023 | 329 | 330 |
| 2024 | 326 | 283 |
| 2025 | 275 | 226 |
| 2026 | 130 | 169 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Anonymous data retrieval method, client and server6 Oct 2026US 12,756,537 B2Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
- Clustering in a storage system22 Sep 2026US 12,743,471 B1Vast Data Ltd.
- Outlier detection based on process fingerprints from robot cycle data22 Sep 2026US 12,743,661 B2ABB Schweiz AG
- Intelligent clustering systems and methods useful for domain protection15 Sep 2026US 12,737,422 B2Proofpoint, Inc.
- Website classification via containment queries8 Sep 2026US 12,732,479 B2McAfee, Inc.
- Method and system for performing entity resolution8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310731 A1JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A.
- System and method for artificial intelligence-based data structuring for document data objects8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310733 A1Galaxy US Opco Inc D/B/A Vialto Partners
- Method for Automatically Classifying Data Items1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300406 A1Varonis Systems, Inc.
- Data clustering using density-based silhouette scores1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300407 A1Infosys Limited
- Analytical framework with context-localized summaries1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300408 A1Tellagence, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Learning based on feedback for contextual personalized information retrieval162US 7,827,125 B1Trovix, Inc. · 2010
- Methods, systems, and computer program products for gathering information and statistics from a community of nodes in a network142US 7,844,663 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2010
- Systems and methods for updating labels assigned to electronic activities127US 10,489,462 B1People. ai, Inc. · 2019
- Digital processing systems and methods for virtual file-based electronic white board in collaborative work systems99US 11,501,255 B2Monday .Com Ltd. · 2022
- Automated classification of items using cascade searches93US 6,697,799 B1Requisite Technology, Inc. · 2004