G06F 3/04886
By partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of
Official title: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
G06F3/04886 (By partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of) appears on 9,489 US grants and 13,551 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
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| 2024 | 605 | 549 |
| 2025 | 472 | 446 |
| 2026 | 196 | 304 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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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
- Gestures for touch sensitive input devices2,066US 8,479,122 B2Apple Inc. · 2013
- Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics1,894US 7,479,949 B2Apple Inc. · 2009
- Information input and output system, method, storage medium, and carrier wave1,676US 7,015,894 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2006
- System and method for recognizing touch typing under limited tactile feedback conditions1,645US 6,677,932 B1Finger Works, Inc. · 2004