G06F 40/109
Font handling
Official title: Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
G06F40/109 (Font handling) appears on 1,221 US grants and 1,456 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,221
- Published applications
- 1,456
- Assignees
- 485
- Inventors
- 3,198
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 50 | 77 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Presenting a visual representation of audible signal data based on environment appearance6 Oct 2026US 12,755,084 B1Apple Inc.
- Representing variable type fonts6 Oct 2026US 12,755,085 B2Monotype Imaging Inc.
- Character generation method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,755,086 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Vector font generation based on cascaded diffusion15 Sep 2026US 12,737,528 B2Adobe Inc.
- Spreadsheet-based software application development25 Aug 2026US 12,717,558 B2
- 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.
- Generative Custom Stickers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311399 A1Google Inc.
- Search device and control method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300361 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for disclosure validation17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278242 A1Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for reading multi-page electronic documents250US 5,819,301 AAdobe Systems Incorporated · 1998
- Techniques for inserting diacritical marks to text input via a user device235US 8,812,302 B2Google Inc. · 2014
- Method and apparatus for displaying an electronic document with text over object233US 5,860,074 AAdobe Systems Incorporated · 1999
- Distributed electronic publishing system189US 6,012,071 AFutureTense, Inc. · 2000
- Method and system for copyright protection of digital images transmitted over networks171US 6,298,446 B1Alchemedia Ltd. · 2001