G06F 21/34
Involving the use of external additional devices
Official title: involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
G06F21/34 (Involving the use of external additional devices) appears on 5,531 US grants and 6,916 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 36 | 85 |
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| 2024 | 340 | 280 |
| 2025 | 243 | 186 |
| 2026 | 164 | 155 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Provisioning a device to be an authentication device6 Oct 2026US 12,756,702 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Hand-based biometric authentication29 Sep 2026US 12,748,830 B2Capital One Services, LLC
- System and method employing reduced time device processing29 Sep 2026US 12,748,831 B2Visa International Service Association
- Authentication using credientials cached at multi-function device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,868 B2Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
- Disposable browsers and authentication techniques for a secure online user environment29 Sep 2026US 12,750,353 B2Authentic8, Inc.
- System, method and computer program product for biometric support for a virtual mobile device platform8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310767 A1Hypori, Inc.
- Credential Validation Application8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310776 A1Oracle International Corporation
- Device security system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310777 A1Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Methods and systems for charging and monitoring electronic devices in confinement institutions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310778 A1Confinement Telephony Technology, LLC
- Actions based on locations in environments8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310779 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Unforgeable personal identification system1,065US 4,993,068 AMotorola, Inc. · 1991
- System for controlling access and distribution of digital property1,018US 5,933,498 AMRJ, Inc. · 1999
- Method for granting a user request having locational and contextual attributes consistent with user policies for devices having locational attributes consistent with the user request693US 5,555,376 AXerox Corporation · 1996
- System for controlling access and distribution of digital property681US 6,314,409 B1Veridian Information Solutions, Inc. · 2001
- Payment application lifecycle management in a contactless smart card667US 8,196,131 B1Google Inc. · 2012