G06F 40/171
By use of digital ink
Official title: by use of digital ink
G06F40/171 (By use of digital ink) appears on 486 US grants and 665 published applications in this corpus.
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- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2019 | 54 | 38 |
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| 2023 | 24 | 26 |
| 2024 | 19 | 28 |
| 2025 | 18 | 19 |
| 2026 | 12 | 17 |
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Recent patents
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- Methods and systems for opening and incrementally displaying documents16 Jun 2026US 12,657,251 B2Relativity Oda LLC
- Input terminal device and operation input method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288295 A1Maxell, Ltd.
- Smart handwriting display device, smart handwriting display method, and electronic device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252233 A1Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for presenting and acquiring electronic signatures on electronic documents through cooperation of computing devices16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203495 A1JurisLink, Inc.
- Handwritten character beautification method and electronic device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203969 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Information processing device and control method2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186584 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Auto-suggest lists and handwritten input283US 7,996,589 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2011
- Multi-layer telestration on a multi-touch display device277US 9,477,649 B1Perceptive Pixel Inc. · 2016
- System and method for annotating web-based documents219US 6,859,909 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2005
- Generating and storing a link correlation table in hypertext documents at the time of storage162US 6,537,324 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2003
- System and apparatus for notetaking with digital video and ink142US 6,452,615 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2002