G06F 21/84
Output devices
Official title: output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
G06F21/84 (Output devices) appears on 1,596 US grants and 2,005 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,596
- Published applications
- 2,005
- Assignees
- 647
- Inventors
- 4,122
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 113 | 122 |
| 2024 | 124 | 100 |
| 2025 | 100 | 94 |
| 2026 | 55 | 56 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Ambulatory medical device with malfunction alert prioritization22 Sep 2026US 12,743,269 B2Beta Bionics, Inc.
- Screenshot prevention22 Sep 2026US 12,743,557 B1Whatsapp Inc.
- Method and electronic device for managing privacy of screen view15 Sep 2026US 12,737,505 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Proximity-based content visibility control25 Aug 2026US 12,717,977 B2Omnissa, LLC
- Adaptive comprehension enhancement system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311511 A1inFormed Consent LLC
- Method of Displaying Content On A Screen Of An Electronic Processing Device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300457 A1Yeo Messaging Ltd.
- Secure equipment access with screen monitoring enforcement1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300519 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Mobile device content sharing with privacy-focused notification management1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300558 A1Motorola Mobility LLC
- Privacy protection of digital image data on a social network1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300559 A1Bumble IP Holdco LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Software-based method for gaining privacy by affecting the screen of a computing device1,227US 7,779,475 B2PetNote LLC · 2010
- System for displaying medical monitoring data424US 9,943,269 B2Masimo Corporation · 2018
- Applying an authorization policy across multiple application programs with requests submitted through an HTTP-based API378US 10,592,683 B1NextLabs, Inc. · 2020
- Rendering digital content in an encrypted rights-protected form357US 6,775,655 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2004
- System for displaying medical monitoring data316US 11,417,426 B2Masimo Corporation · 2022