G06F 21/73
By creating or determining hardware identification
Official title: by creating or determining hardware identification, e.g. serial numbers
G06F21/73 (By creating or determining hardware identification) appears on 1,458 US grants and 1,658 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,458
- Published applications
- 1,658
- Assignees
- 607
- Inventors
- 2,969
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 8 | 20 |
| 2004 | 5 | 42 |
| 2005 | 5 | 26 |
| 2006 | 17 | 38 |
| 2007 | 29 | 34 |
| 2008 | 18 | 41 |
| 2009 | 27 | 53 |
| 2010 | 44 | 44 |
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| 2013 | 56 | 52 |
| 2014 | 73 | 81 |
| 2015 | 63 | 53 |
| 2016 | 53 | 76 |
| 2017 | 59 | 70 |
| 2018 | 81 | 119 |
| 2019 | 93 | 114 |
| 2020 | 131 | 129 |
| 2021 | 94 | 147 |
| 2022 | 119 | 129 |
| 2023 | 128 | 114 |
| 2024 | 113 | 80 |
| 2025 | 85 | 63 |
| 2026 | 44 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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