G06F 3/038
Control and interface arrangements therefor
Official title: Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
G06F3/038 (Control and interface arrangements therefor) appears on 7,661 US grants and 8,899 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 7,661
- Published applications
- 8,899
- Assignees
- 1,990
- Inventors
- 14,470
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 7 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 111 | 0 |
| 2001 | 125 | 46 |
| 2002 | 101 | 136 |
| 2003 | 82 | 149 |
| 2004 | 105 | 160 |
| 2005 | 79 | 250 |
| 2006 | 115 | 222 |
| 2007 | 111 | 226 |
| 2008 | 106 | 253 |
| 2009 | 122 | 207 |
| 2010 | 124 | 309 |
| 2011 | 128 | 354 |
| 2012 | 163 | 285 |
| 2013 | 231 | 398 |
| 2014 | 276 | 421 |
| 2015 | 363 | 527 |
| 2016 | 389 | 551 |
| 2017 | 385 | 571 |
| 2018 | 474 | 564 |
| 2019 | 573 | 518 |
| 2020 | 575 | 456 |
| 2021 | 439 | 411 |
| 2022 | 398 | 424 |
| 2023 | 410 | 440 |
| 2024 | 434 | 409 |
| 2025 | 409 | 358 |
| 2026 | 224 | 254 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Information transmission method, and apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,622 B2Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Calibration of touch operation for controlling a head-mounted display apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,624 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Rotary input device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,625 B2Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Pen nib module and capacitive stylus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,626 B2EMRight Technology Co., Ltd.
- External user interface for head worn computing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,642 B2Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
- Electronic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310312 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Pressure mouse wheel8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310313 A1Azoteq Holdings Limited
- Touch driving integrated circuit and operation method thereof and touch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310314 A1Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
- Endoscope system, information notification method, and recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298842 A1Evident Inspection Technologies Japan Corporation
- Periodic parameter estimation for visual-inertial tracking systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299681 A1Snap Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Collaboration system for producing copies of image generated by first program on first computer on other computers and annotating the image by second program2,212US 5,819,038 ANCR Corporation · 1998
- Computer interface apparatus including linkage having flex1,253US 6,697,048 B2Immersion Corporation · 2004
- Graphical user interface with gesture recognition in a multiapplication environment760US 5,252,951 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993
- Method and apparatus for accelerated scrolling756US 7,312,785 B2Apple Inc. · 2007