G06F 21/70
Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a
Official title: Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
G06F21/70 (Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a) appears on 19,681 US grants and 22,686 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 19,681
- Published applications
- 22,686
- Assignees
- 4,238
- Inventors
- 33,240
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 10 | 0 |
| 1989 | 27 | 0 |
| 1990 | 20 | 0 |
| 1991 | 30 | 0 |
| 1992 | 22 | 0 |
| 1993 | 30 | 0 |
| 1994 | 34 | 0 |
| 1995 | 44 | 0 |
| 1996 | 61 | 0 |
| 1997 | 69 | 0 |
| 1998 | 113 | 0 |
| 1999 | 137 | 0 |
| 2000 | 115 | 0 |
| 2001 | 181 | 89 |
| 2002 | 137 | 270 |
| 2003 | 154 | 366 |
| 2004 | 174 | 487 |
| 2005 | 163 | 644 |
| 2006 | 345 | 714 |
| 2007 | 350 | 729 |
| 2008 | 391 | 934 |
| 2009 | 417 | 777 |
| 2010 | 568 | 767 |
| 2011 | 567 | 688 |
| 2012 | 644 | 677 |
| 2013 | 784 | 809 |
| 2014 | 996 | 1054 |
| 2015 | 1001 | 992 |
| 2016 | 958 | 1094 |
| 2017 | 984 | 1063 |
| 2018 | 956 | 1172 |
| 2019 | 1130 | 1324 |
| 2020 | 1249 | 1429 |
| 2021 | 1224 | 1572 |
| 2022 | 1377 | 1468 |
| 2023 | 1285 | 1205 |
| 2024 | 1202 | 942 |
| 2025 | 1064 | 860 |
| 2026 | 610 | 560 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 21/71To assure secure computing or processing of information8,070
- G06F 21/78To assure secure storage of data6,645
- G06F 21/82Protecting input, output or interconnection devices4,820
- G06F 21/86Secure or tamper-resistant housings2,100
- G06F 21/88Detecting or preventing theft or loss1,338
- G06F 21/81By operating on the power supply589
Recent patents
- Managing motherboard replacement at an information handling system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,741 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Memory controller, storage device including the same, and operating method of the memory controller6 Oct 2026US 12,754,855 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for encrypting files for application-level data protection in secure enclaves6 Oct 2026US 12,755,030 B1Anjuna Security, Inc.
- Enabling RDMA client and server resource isolation in a connectionless environment6 Oct 2026US 12,755,032 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Secret multiple repetition calculation apparatus, method and program6 Oct 2026US 12,755,058 B2NTT, Inc.
- Down porting a fix commit of a recent version of a component to an older version of the component8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310799 A1Endor Labs Inc
- Soft wipe of data storage media8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310800 A1Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc.
- Secure Backup Method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310802 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Cryptoagile Network Management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310830 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Methods and systems for determining the authenticity of a component8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310831 A1Lexmark International, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection3,563US 5,892,900 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Method and system for controlling access share storage devices in a network environment by configuring host-to-volume mapping data structures in the controller memory for granting and denying access to the devices1,315US 6,343,324 B12002
- Tamper respondent system1,284US 7,787,256 B2Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. · 2010
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,270US 5,982,891 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Software-based method for gaining privacy by affecting the screen of a computing device1,227US 7,779,475 B2PetNote LLC · 2010