G06F 7/22
Arrangements for sorting or merging computer data on continuous record carriers
Official title: Arrangements for sorting or merging computer data on continuous record carriers, e.g. tape, drum, disc
G06F7/22 (Arrangements for sorting or merging computer data on continuous record carriers) appears on 1,050 US grants and 965 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- 965
- Assignees
- 482
- Inventors
- 2,202
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 76 | 53 |
| 2025 | 44 | 43 |
| 2026 | 24 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
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- Coarse Depth Test in Graphics Processing Systems27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253319 A1Imagination Technologies Limited
- Parallelized database system input/output operation execution13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236468 A1Ocient Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Qualifying and sorting file record data571US 4,417,321 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1983
- Maintaining even and odd array pointers to extreme values by searching and comparing multiple elements concurrently where a pointer is adjusted after processing to account for a number of pipeline stages422US 6,948,056 B1Analog Devices, Inc. · 2005
- System and method for resource reconciliation in an enterprise management system246US 9,137,115 B2BMC Software, Inc. · 2015
- Apparatus and method for sorting a list of items213US 5,218,700 A1993
- Method of facilitating computer sorting191US 4,939,639 ANorthern Telecom Limited · 1990