G06F 3/0414
Using force sensing means to determine a position
Official title: {using force sensing means to determine a position}
G06F3/0414 (Using force sensing means to determine a position) appears on 2,412 US grants and 2,825 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,412
- Published applications
- 2,825
- Assignees
- 648
- Inventors
- 4,725
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 124 | 102 |
| 2026 | 69 | 58 |
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.
- Force detection device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,001 B2Japan Display Inc.
- Base assemblies for Knob on Display devices and related systems, methods, and devices29 Sep 2026US 12,748,467 B2Atmel Corporation
- System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface22 Sep 2026US 12,743,168 B2Cirque Corporation
- Morphable surface15 Sep 2026US 12,737,066 B2
- Converting a 2d positional input into a 3d point in space8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310285 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Providing a Home Button Replacement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310305 A1Apple Inc.
- Matrix array force sensor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287448 A1Peratech IP Ltd
- Fluidic wire sensors24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288290 A1Teveri LLC
- Interactive tangible gaming system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273388 A1Harris Hill Products Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multipoint touchscreen3,397US 7,663,607 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Surgical instrument comprising a pivotable distal head586US 10,743,868 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2020
- Continuous use self-propelled stapling instrument583US 10,682,134 B2Ethicon, Inc. · 2020
- Force sensing touchpad368US 5,854,625 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1998
- Surgical stapler comprising storable cartridges having different staple sizes365US 11,147,547 B2Cilag GmbH International · 2021