G06F 3/0393
Accessories for touch pads or touch screens
Official title: {Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads}
G06F3/0393 (Accessories for touch pads or touch screens) appears on 847 US grants and 1,165 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 847
- Published applications
- 1,165
- Assignees
- 456
- Inventors
- 2,070
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4 |
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| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 13 |
| 2007 | 1 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12 |
| 2010 | 4 | 14 |
| 2011 | 6 | 30 |
| 2012 | 12 | 37 |
| 2013 | 20 | 57 |
| 2014 | 16 | 81 |
| 2015 | 45 | 109 |
| 2016 | 52 | 101 |
| 2017 | 68 | 92 |
| 2018 | 72 | 86 |
| 2019 | 85 | 87 |
| 2020 | 90 | 98 |
| 2021 | 76 | 79 |
| 2022 | 72 | 86 |
| 2023 | 74 | 63 |
| 2024 | 56 | 41 |
| 2025 | 55 | 37 |
| 2026 | 17 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Rubber latex compound, method for manufacturing glove, and glove23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209484 A1Showa Glove Co.
- Covers and keypad overlays for handheld device data entry11 Jun 2026US 2026/0164579 A1Micount LLC
- Palm comfort pad for laptop28 May 2026US 2026/0147381 A1
- Sterile stylus21 May 2026US 2026/0140576 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
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