G06F 3/042
By opto-electronic means
Official title: by opto-electronic means
G06F3/042 (By opto-electronic means) appears on 6,719 US grants and 8,618 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 6,719
- Published applications
- 8,618
- Assignees
- 1,650
- Inventors
- 11,706
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 36 | 71 |
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| 2004 | 62 | 81 |
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| 2021 | 387 | 350 |
| 2022 | 302 | 318 |
| 2023 | 295 | 309 |
| 2024 | 284 | 232 |
| 2025 | 207 | 172 |
| 2026 | 119 | 124 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Calibration method for an electronic display screen for touchless gesture control6 Oct 2026US 12,754,640 B2Ameria AG
- Electronic device and infrared touch frame having radio frequency signal processing function6 Oct 2026US 12,754,641 B2Shenzhen Ktc Commercial Display Technology Co., Ltd.
- Display substrate and display device6 Oct 2026US 12,757,620 B2Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Fabric control device29 Sep 2026US 12,747,521 B2
- Contactless button22 Sep 2026US 12,743,175 B2Darwin Precisions Corporation
- Display device, electronic device including the same, and driving method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305960 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for automated interaction with a touch-screen device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310321 A1Jackpocket LLC
- Adaptable virtualized human-machine interface for a portable computer8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310341 A1Ameria AG
- Assembly line variant path planning system and method based on graph-based deep reinforcement learning8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311074 A1Guangdong University of Technology
- Autonomous Machine for Orchard and Agricultural Operations1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293790 A1Bonsai Robotics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Graphical input controller and method with rear screen image detection1,992US 5,483,261 AITU Research, Inc. · 1996
- Information input and output system, method, storage medium, and carrier wave1,676US 7,015,894 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2006
- Real time perception of and response to the actions of an unencumbered participant/user854US 4,843,568 A1989
- Self-referenced tracking629US 6,757,068 B2InterSense, Inc. · 2004
- Man machine interfaces and applications625US 7,042,440 B22006