G06F 40/40
Processing or translation of natural language
Official title: Processing or translation of natural language (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30)
G06F40/40 (Processing or translation of natural language) appears on 10,050 US grants and 14,653 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 10,050
- Published applications
- 14,653
- Assignees
- 3,022
- Inventors
- 29,393
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 10 | 0 |
| 1984 | 13 | 0 |
| 1985 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 21 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 32 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 37 | 0 |
| 1999 | 56 | 0 |
| 2000 | 41 | 0 |
| 2001 | 60 | 24 |
| 2002 | 59 | 109 |
| 2003 | 33 | 127 |
| 2004 | 24 | 112 |
| 2005 | 34 | 154 |
| 2006 | 67 | 154 |
| 2007 | 70 | 158 |
| 2008 | 69 | 195 |
| 2009 | 77 | 218 |
| 2010 | 116 | 201 |
| 2011 | 138 | 186 |
| 2012 | 179 | 257 |
| 2013 | 255 | 367 |
| 2014 | 315 | 404 |
| 2015 | 339 | 466 |
| 2016 | 409 | 466 |
| 2017 | 427 | 560 |
| 2018 | 413 | 591 |
| 2019 | 557 | 737 |
| 2020 | 641 | 825 |
| 2021 | 672 | 884 |
| 2022 | 711 | 960 |
| 2023 | 819 | 1121 |
| 2024 | 959 | 1408 |
| 2025 | 1122 | 1852 |
| 2026 | 1049 | 2117 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Document processing and retrieval for knowledge-based question answering6 Oct 2026US 12,754,942 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Presenting a visual representation of audible signal data based on environment appearance6 Oct 2026US 12,755,084 B1Apple Inc.
- Perception capture system6 Oct 2026US 12,755,095 B2Airbnb, Inc.
- System and method for providing a natural language generator service for use with data analytics environments6 Oct 2026US 12,755,096 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Multi-turn dialogue response generation with template generation6 Oct 2026US 12,755,101 B2Capital One Services, LLC
- System and method for translating natural language traffic rules into formal logic for autonomous moving vehicles8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307673 A1Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH
- Multi-device input based shared processing techniques8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310401 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Method and system of removing language barriers from digital interface-generated objects8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310479 A1JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A.
- System debugging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310541 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Generating multimodal experiences from source content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310630 A1SINAI.AI, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computerized cross-language document retrieval using latent semantic indexing688US 5,301,109 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1994
- System and method for natural language processing of query answers680US 7,702,508 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2010
- Natural language analyzing apparatus and method654US 5,386,556 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Intelligent automated assistant619US 9,318,108 B2Apple Inc. · 2016
- Multilingual electronic document translation, management, and delivery system593US 6,623,529 B12003