G06F 3/0488
Using a touch-screen or digitiser
Official title: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
G06F3/0488 (Using a touch-screen or digitiser) appears on 34,071 US grants and 47,103 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
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| 2026 | 766 | 1013 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Room touchscreen terminal6 Oct 2026US 12,754,658 B2Rauland-Borg Corporation
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- Electronic device and method for controlling electronic device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310287 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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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
- 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
- Paintbrush stylus for capacitive touch sensor pad2,104US 5,488,204 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1996
- Gestures for touch sensitive input devices2,066US 8,479,122 B2Apple Inc. · 2013