G06F 3/041
Digitisers
Official title: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
G06F3/041 (Digitisers) appears on 46,097 US grants and 57,752 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 46,097
- Published applications
- 57,752
- Assignees
- 5,578
- Inventors
- 54,956
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 12 | 0 |
| 1977 | 12 | 0 |
| 1978 | 22 | 0 |
| 1979 | 9 | 0 |
| 1980 | 25 | 0 |
| 1981 | 27 | 0 |
| 1982 | 15 | 0 |
| 1983 | 19 | 0 |
| 1984 | 25 | 0 |
| 1985 | 37 | 0 |
| 1986 | 45 | 0 |
| 1987 | 91 | 0 |
| 1988 | 74 | 0 |
| 1989 | 87 | 0 |
| 1990 | 57 | 0 |
| 1991 | 72 | 0 |
| 1992 | 63 | 0 |
| 1993 | 64 | 0 |
| 1994 | 52 | 0 |
| 1995 | 71 | 0 |
| 1996 | 104 | 0 |
| 1997 | 77 | 0 |
| 1998 | 148 | 0 |
| 1999 | 116 | 0 |
| 2000 | 89 | 0 |
| 2001 | 121 | 71 |
| 2002 | 122 | 215 |
| 2003 | 152 | 249 |
| 2004 | 156 | 305 |
| 2005 | 125 | 386 |
| 2006 | 174 | 468 |
| 2007 | 215 | 502 |
| 2008 | 207 | 787 |
| 2009 | 235 | 1046 |
| 2010 | 335 | 1674 |
| 2011 | 458 | 2226 |
| 2012 | 900 | 2560 |
| 2013 | 1501 | 3299 |
| 2014 | 2048 | 3962 |
| 2015 | 2879 | 4480 |
| 2016 | 3292 | 4576 |
| 2017 | 3524 | 4342 |
| 2018 | 3726 | 3964 |
| 2019 | 4254 | 3915 |
| 2020 | 4189 | 3556 |
| 2021 | 3408 | 3436 |
| 2022 | 3222 | 3097 |
| 2023 | 2905 | 2728 |
| 2024 | 2704 | 2525 |
| 2025 | 2351 | 2057 |
| 2026 | 1481 | 1326 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 3/044By capacitive means23,086
- G06F 3/0416Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers20,644
- G06F 3/0412Digitisers structurally integrated in a display15,961
- G06F 3/042By opto-electronic means6,719
- G06F 3/045Using resistive elements2,475
- G06F 3/0414Using force sensing means to determine a position2,412
- G06F 3/046By electromagnetic means1,895
- G06F 3/043Using propagating acoustic waves1,316
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Recent patents
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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
- Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition2,193US 5,880,411 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1999
- Two-layer capacitive touchpad and method of making same2,193US 6,188,391 B1Synaptics Incorporated · 2001