G06F 3/0238
Programmable keyboards
Official title: {Programmable keyboards (key guide holders G06F3/0224)}
G06F3/0238 (Programmable keyboards) appears on 1,007 US grants and 1,179 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,007
- Published applications
- 1,179
- Assignees
- 519
- Inventors
- 2,382
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 26 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 8 |
| 2002 | 13 | 34 |
| 2003 | 16 | 55 |
| 2004 | 23 | 51 |
| 2005 | 28 | 47 |
| 2006 | 32 | 57 |
| 2007 | 32 | 57 |
| 2008 | 22 | 77 |
| 2009 | 19 | 59 |
| 2010 | 21 | 77 |
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| 2012 | 37 | 41 |
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| 2017 | 29 | 60 |
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| 2020 | 43 | 43 |
| 2021 | 47 | 49 |
| 2022 | 40 | 28 |
| 2023 | 23 | 25 |
| 2024 | 30 | 26 |
| 2025 | 22 | 22 |
| 2026 | 13 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Housing as an I/O device22 Sep 2026US 12,743,124 B2
- Information handling system keyboard with replaceable modular keys15 Sep 2026US 12,737,056 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Switchable conversion of a standard keyboard to a braille interface11 Aug 2026US 12,704,908 B2Intel Corporation
- System and method for a thin capacitive split keyboard stack including a light-emitting diode (LED) layer and light guide for an information handling system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,931 B1Dell Products L. P.
- Accessibility verification testing28 Jul 2026US 12,693,957 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Keyboard with switchable keystroke sound3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259615 A1Guangdong Ruixun Electronic Technology Co.,Ltd.
- Information processing apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211473 A1Lenovo Japan LLC
- Cross device interactions7 May 2026US 2026/0126942 A1Apple Inc.
- Information handling system keyboard with moisture detection by thz spectroscopy9 Apr 2026US 2026/0098803 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Information handling system keyboard with replaceable modular keys9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099214 A1Dell Products L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disambiguating system for disambiguating ambiguous input sequences by displaying objects associated with the generated input sequences in the order of decreasing frequency of use638US 5,953,541 ATegic Communications, Inc. · 1999
- Reduced keyboard disambiguating computer629US 5,818,437 ATegic Communications, Inc. · 1998
- Dynamic predictive keyboard466US 5,128,672 AApple Computer, Inc. · 1992
- Reduced keyboard and method for simultaneous ambiguous and unambiguous text input438US 6,286,064 B1Tegic Communications, Inc. · 2001
- Method and application for scanning a barcode with a smart device while continuously running and displaying an application on the smart device display432US 9,250,712 B1Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2016