G06F 3/00
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable
Official title: Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
G06F3/00 (Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable) appears on 269,167 US grants and 329,197 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 269,167
- Published applications
- 329,197
- Assignees
- 30,561
- Inventors
- 335,872
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 105 | 0 |
| 1977 | 97 | 0 |
| 1978 | 99 | 0 |
| 1979 | 50 | 0 |
| 1980 | 99 | 0 |
| 1981 | 85 | 0 |
| 1982 | 87 | 0 |
| 1983 | 103 | 0 |
| 1984 | 146 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 983 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1519 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1480 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1434 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1531 | 738 |
| 2002 | 1598 | 2807 |
| 2003 | 1701 | 3322 |
| 2004 | 1812 | 3692 |
| 2005 | 1788 | 4498 |
| 2006 | 2508 | 4948 |
| 2007 | 2345 | 5393 |
| 2008 | 2495 | 6182 |
| 2009 | 2733 | 6816 |
| 2010 | 3551 | 7999 |
| 2011 | 3958 | 9332 |
| 2012 | 5614 | 10883 |
| 2013 | 7708 | 13660 |
| 2014 | 10377 | 17410 |
| 2015 | 12826 | 19428 |
| 2016 | 15159 | 20814 |
| 2017 | 16362 | 21333 |
| 2018 | 17456 | 20382 |
| 2019 | 21729 | 22115 |
| 2020 | 22500 | 21860 |
| 2021 | 20648 | 20982 |
| 2022 | 19547 | 19856 |
| 2023 | 18593 | 19151 |
| 2024 | 18156 | 18431 |
| 2025 | 15716 | 15715 |
| 2026 | 9527 | 11450 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 3/01Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user172,621
- G06F 3/06Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers55,070
- G06F 3/16Sound input21,439
- G06F 3/14Digital output to display device19,882
- G06F 3/12Digital output to print unit17,041
- G06F 3/002Specific input/output arrangements not covered by g06f3/01 - g06f3/162,330
- G06F 3/05Digital input using the sampling of an analogue quantity at regular intervals257
- G06F 3/13Digital output to plotter92
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
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