G06F 3/01
Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user
Official title: Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer (G06F3/16 takes precedence)
G06F3/01 (Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user) appears on 172,621 US grants and 220,684 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 172,621
- Published applications
- 220,684
- Assignees
- 24,113
- Inventors
- 241,170
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 67 | 0 |
| 1977 | 64 | 0 |
| 1978 | 71 | 0 |
| 1979 | 30 | 0 |
| 1980 | 60 | 0 |
| 1981 | 64 | 0 |
| 1982 | 55 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 619 | 0 |
| 1998 | 979 | 0 |
| 1999 | 961 | 0 |
| 2000 | 913 | 0 |
| 2001 | 922 | 450 |
| 2002 | 987 | 1720 |
| 2003 | 952 | 1900 |
| 2004 | 981 | 2103 |
| 2005 | 916 | 2651 |
| 2006 | 1301 | 2901 |
| 2007 | 1265 | 3240 |
| 2008 | 1296 | 3933 |
| 2009 | 1456 | 4532 |
| 2010 | 1994 | 5669 |
| 2011 | 2191 | 6673 |
| 2012 | 3398 | 7765 |
| 2013 | 4858 | 10064 |
| 2014 | 6581 | 12899 |
| 2015 | 8455 | 14284 |
| 2016 | 10285 | 14914 |
| 2017 | 10983 | 14614 |
| 2018 | 11557 | 13804 |
| 2019 | 14520 | 14426 |
| 2020 | 15057 | 14067 |
| 2021 | 13383 | 13442 |
| 2022 | 12386 | 12626 |
| 2023 | 11689 | 12302 |
| 2024 | 11446 | 11984 |
| 2025 | 10133 | 10228 |
| 2026 | 6286 | 7493 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 3/048Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [gui]92,043
- G06F 3/03Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into70,458
- G06F 3/011Arrangements for interaction with the human body31,024
- G06F 3/017Gesture based interaction17,072
- G06F 3/02Input arrangements using manually operated switches11,544
- G06F 3/016Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to10,755
- G06F 3/018Input/output arrangements for oriental characters580
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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
- Multipoint touchscreen3,397US 7,663,607 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Multiple fingers contact sensing method for emulating mouse buttons and mouse operations on a touch sensor pad2,510US 5,825,352 ALogitech, Inc. · 1998
- Method to provide for virtual screen overlay2,331US 5,577,188 AFuture Labs, Inc. · 1996
- System for allowing user of any computer to draw image over that generated by the host computer and replicating the drawn image to other computers2,300US 5,649,104 ANCR Corporation · 1997