G06F 7/06
Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers
G06F7/06 (Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers) appears on 1,228 US grants and 1,335 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,228
- Published applications
- 1,335
- Assignees
- 473
- Inventors
- 2,609
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2019 | 118 | 202 |
| 2020 | 146 | 144 |
| 2021 | 137 | 143 |
| 2022 | 150 | 99 |
| 2023 | 123 | 92 |
| 2024 | 107 | 53 |
| 2025 | 129 | 111 |
| 2026 | 62 | 60 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 7/08Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according556
- G06F 7/14Merging, i.e. combining at least two sets of record carriers each arranged506
- G06F 7/20Comparing separate sets of record carriers arranged in the same sequence to71
- G06F 7/10Selecting, i.e. obtaining data of one kind from those record carriers which33
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