G06F 2221/2107
File encryption
G06F2221/2107 (File encryption) appears on 2,770 US grants and 2,838 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,770
- Published applications
- 2,838
- Assignees
- 1,071
- Inventors
- 4,819
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 7 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996 | 11 | 0 |
| 1997 | 12 | 0 |
| 1998 | 22 | 0 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 25 | 14 |
| 2002 | 25 | 93 |
| 2003 | 21 | 45 |
| 2004 | 35 | 48 |
| 2005 | 34 | 88 |
| 2006 | 47 | 54 |
| 2007 | 38 | 74 |
| 2008 | 34 | 77 |
| 2009 | 39 | 61 |
| 2010 | 53 | 83 |
| 2011 | 74 | 98 |
| 2012 | 65 | 109 |
| 2013 | 107 | 153 |
| 2014 | 186 | 211 |
| 2015 | 234 | 177 |
| 2016 | 179 | 184 |
| 2017 | 184 | 186 |
| 2018 | 187 | 169 |
| 2019 | 170 | 201 |
| 2020 | 172 | 191 |
| 2021 | 152 | 134 |
| 2022 | 183 | 125 |
| 2023 | 159 | 110 |
| 2024 | 126 | 68 |
| 2025 | 81 | 54 |
| 2026 | 45 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Techniques for deterministically routing database requests to database servers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,881 B2Apple Inc.
- Techniques for non-volatile data protection1 Sep 2026US 12,726,335 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Optimized encryption key management by a group of storage systems25 Aug 2026US 12,719,664 B2Pure Storage, Inc.
- Systems and methods to secure searchable data having personally identifiable information25 Aug 2026US 12,719,674 B2Thunes Financial Services LLC
- End-to-End Encryption and Hot Wallet Key Recovery Apparatuses, Processes and Systems25 Aug 2026US 12,719,675 B2Fmr LLC
- Data transfer between two data processing units8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310804 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Hardware specific cryptographic key1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300516 A1Analog Devices, Inc.
- De-Sequencing Encoded Data Slices via a Storage Network24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288583 A1Everpure, Inc.
- Video file processing method, electronic device and storage medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288993 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and Methods to Secure Searchable Data having Personally Identifiable Information17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280873 A1Thunes Financial Services LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Linking of computers based on optical sensing of digital data942US 6,311,214 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2001
- Network linking method using steganographically embedded data objects665US 5,841,978 ADigimarc Corporation · 1998
- Private, trackable URLs for directed document delivery654US 6,192,407 B1Tumbleweed Communications Corp. · 2001
- Secure electronic content distribution on CDS and DVDs644US 6,611,812 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2003
- Method and apparatus for enabling trial period use of software products: method and apparatus for passing encrypted files between data processing systems535US 5,563,946 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1996