G06F 40/10
Text processing
Official title: Text processing (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40)
G06F40/10 (Text processing) appears on 29,928 US grants and 36,817 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 29,928
- Published applications
- 36,817
- Assignees
- 6,787
- Inventors
- 62,047
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 10 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 185 | 118 |
| 2002 | 164 | 475 |
| 2003 | 163 | 467 |
| 2004 | 221 | 753 |
| 2005 | 239 | 897 |
| 2006 | 418 | 1063 |
| 2007 | 445 | 1027 |
| 2008 | 489 | 1017 |
| 2009 | 561 | 1023 |
| 2010 | 753 | 861 |
| 2011 | 709 | 831 |
| 2012 | 813 | 1108 |
| 2013 | 963 | 1565 |
| 2014 | 1144 | 2086 |
| 2015 | 1309 | 2162 |
| 2016 | 1766 | 2264 |
| 2017 | 1782 | 2303 |
| 2018 | 1764 | 1844 |
| 2019 | 2166 | 2101 |
| 2020 | 2226 | 1939 |
| 2021 | 2074 | 1979 |
| 2022 | 1840 | 1937 |
| 2023 | 1915 | 1961 |
| 2024 | 1763 | 1834 |
| 2025 | 1466 | 1687 |
| 2026 | 947 | 1515 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 40/166Editing16,894
- G06F 40/12Use of codes for handling textual entities11,153
- G06F 40/103Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents9,126
- G06F 40/197Version control1,669
- G06F 40/194Calculation of difference between files839
- G06F 40/189Automatic justification153
- G06F 40/191Automatic line break hyphenation62
Recent patents
- Feature discovery layer6 Oct 2026US 12,754,649 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Generating and utilizing webpage policies6 Oct 2026US 12,754,662 B2Taboola.Com Ltd.
- System and method for test data healing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,825 B2Sap SE
- Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for information processing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,884 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Cost attribution using resource switching6 Oct 2026US 12,754,933 B1Sigma Computing, Inc.
- Method, apparatus, device, and medium for playing media data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310337 A1
- Multiple visual representations based on source data8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310684 A1Lucid Software, Inc.
- Font style migration network training method and apparatus, device, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310876 A1Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Systems and Methods for Digitally Interpreting a Linguistic Section of a Source File via Highlighting on a Graphical User Interface8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310877 A1Veeva Systems Inc.
- Adaptive, component-level data rendering using predictive models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310878 A1Capital One Services, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Internet service of differently formatted viewable data signals including commands for browser execution2,255US 6,295,530 B12001
- Method and apparatus for serving files to browsing clients2,153US 6,826,565 B2Ablaise Limited · 2004
- Method for presentation of revisions of an electronic document1,270US 8,209,308 B22012
- Dynamic page generator1,236US 5,983,227 AYahoo! Inc. · 1999
- Document revisions in a collaborative computing environment1,225US 8,566,301 B22013