G06F 40/169
Annotation
Official title: Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
G06F40/169 (Annotation) appears on 3,830 US grants and 4,942 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 3,830
- Published applications
- 4,942
- Assignees
- 1,258
- Inventors
- 9,599
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 | 37 |
| 2003 | 9 | 36 |
| 2004 | 18 | 66 |
| 2005 | 17 | 65 |
| 2006 | 33 | 121 |
| 2007 | 40 | 90 |
| 2008 | 47 | 87 |
| 2009 | 56 | 104 |
| 2010 | 71 | 107 |
| 2011 | 60 | 106 |
| 2012 | 79 | 177 |
| 2013 | 107 | 187 |
| 2014 | 129 | 224 |
| 2015 | 152 | 312 |
| 2016 | 233 | 372 |
| 2017 | 221 | 326 |
| 2018 | 254 | 292 |
| 2019 | 364 | 349 |
| 2020 | 353 | 300 |
| 2021 | 351 | 310 |
| 2022 | 290 | 336 |
| 2023 | 292 | 277 |
| 2024 | 243 | 225 |
| 2025 | 189 | 199 |
| 2026 | 124 | 231 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Distilling language models15 Sep 2026US 12,737,560 B2Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Advanced machine learning methods for enhanced call transcript annotation and targeted analytics report generation15 Sep 2026US 12,737,566 B2Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
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- Information processing system and information processing method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310907 A1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd.
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- Synchronizing/updating local client notes with annotations previously made by other clients in a notes database472US 6,687,878 B1Real Time Image Ltd. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for utilizing annotations to facilitate computer retrieval of database material437US 5,404,295 A1995
- Annotating temporally-dimensioned multimedia content417US 6,546,405 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2003