G06F 3/1204
Resulting in reduced user or operator actions
Official title: {resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data}
G06F3/1204 (Resulting in reduced user or operator actions) appears on 5,180 US grants and 6,480 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 5,180
- Published applications
- 6,480
- Assignees
- 496
- Inventors
- 6,890
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 14 | 0 |
| 2001 | 33 | 35 |
| 2002 | 44 | 138 |
| 2003 | 72 | 231 |
| 2004 | 95 | 166 |
| 2005 | 90 | 217 |
| 2006 | 159 | 227 |
| 2007 | 121 | 228 |
| 2008 | 133 | 305 |
| 2009 | 112 | 283 |
| 2010 | 149 | 273 |
| 2011 | 190 | 226 |
| 2012 | 239 | 263 |
| 2013 | 286 | 272 |
| 2014 | 296 | 284 |
| 2015 | 325 | 301 |
| 2016 | 261 | 256 |
| 2017 | 237 | 245 |
| 2018 | 248 | 300 |
| 2019 | 296 | 367 |
| 2020 | 308 | 378 |
| 2021 | 325 | 297 |
| 2022 | 298 | 281 |
| 2023 | 335 | 297 |
| 2024 | 268 | 266 |
| 2025 | 131 | 178 |
| 2026 | 47 | 166 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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