G06F 18/20
Analysing
G06F18/20 (Analysing) appears on 40,351 US grants and 47,302 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 40,351
- Published applications
- 47,302
- Assignees
- 8,898
- Inventors
- 79,841
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 9 | 0 |
| 1987 | 6 | 0 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 |
| 1989 | 14 | 0 |
| 1990 | 15 | 0 |
| 1991 | 25 | 0 |
| 1992 | 21 | 0 |
| 1993 | 32 | 0 |
| 1994 | 41 | 0 |
| 1995 | 46 | 0 |
| 1996 | 63 | 0 |
| 1997 | 68 | 0 |
| 1998 | 97 | 0 |
| 1999 | 72 | 0 |
| 2000 | 70 | 0 |
| 2001 | 72 | 12 |
| 2002 | 85 | 132 |
| 2003 | 129 | 218 |
| 2004 | 100 | 182 |
| 2005 | 105 | 236 |
| 2006 | 158 | 257 |
| 2007 | 154 | 318 |
| 2008 | 160 | 363 |
| 2009 | 236 | 416 |
| 2010 | 314 | 461 |
| 2011 | 342 | 451 |
| 2012 | 474 | 527 |
| 2013 | 608 | 754 |
| 2014 | 693 | 835 |
| 2015 | 874 | 1291 |
| 2016 | 1142 | 1835 |
| 2017 | 1489 | 2081 |
| 2018 | 1680 | 2756 |
| 2019 | 2468 | 4290 |
| 2020 | 3452 | 6084 |
| 2021 | 4285 | 7700 |
| 2022 | 5328 | 6171 |
| 2023 | 5764 | 4407 |
| 2024 | 4741 | 2469 |
| 2025 | 3262 | 1758 |
| 2026 | 1627 | 1298 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 18/21Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques18,462
- G06F 18/24Classification techniques16,244
- G06F 18/22Matching criteria8,188
- G06F 18/23Clustering techniques5,185
- G06F 18/25Fusion techniques4,493
- G06F 18/28Determining representative reference patterns1,167
- G06F 18/29Graphical models1,023
- G06F 18/285Selection of pattern recognition techniques812
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method1,594US 6,400,996 B12002
- Media recording device with packet data interface1,292US 6,640,145 B22003
- Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions1,201US 5,613,012 ASmartTouch, Inc. · 1997
- Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set902US 6,161,130 AMicrosoft Corporation · 2000