G06F 7/40
Using contact-making devices
Official title: using contact-making devices, e.g. electromagnetic relay (G06F7/46 takes precedence)
G06F7/40 (Using contact-making devices) appears on 41 US grants and 49 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 49
- Assignees
- 36
- Inventors
- 90
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Core group memory processing unit architectures and configurations4 Aug 2026US 12,699,513 B2MemryX Incorporated
- Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations3 Jun 2025US 12,321,743 B2NVIDIA Corporation
- Method of determining the center of loading of a rolling element25 Feb 2025US 12,234,863 B2Aktiebolaget Skf
- Large integer multiplication enhancements for graphics environment25 Feb 2025US 12,236,238 B2Intel Corporation
- Vehicle navigation assistance method and device using an invariant Kalman filter and a navigation status of a second vehicle26 Mar 2024US 11,941,079 B2Safran Electronics & Defense
- Integrated circuits for large-scale transistor tensor operations12 Mar 2026US 2026/0073966 A1Teracore System, Inc.
- Generalized acceleration of matrix multiply accumulate operations27 Nov 2025US 2025/0362910 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Output block for vector-by-matrix multiplication array24 Jul 2025US 2025/0238479 A1Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
- Large integer multiplication enhancements for graphics environment17 Jul 2025US 2025/0231764 A1Intel Corporation
- Electronic Wireless Binary Transmitter to a Electronic Receiver27 Feb 2025US 2025/0068389 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Matrix processing method and apparatus, and logic circuit44US 11,250,108 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 2022
- Digital signal processing blocks with embedded arithmetic circuits19US 9,207,908 B1Altera Corporation · 2015
- Multipurpose arithmetic functional unit16US 8,190,669 B1NVIDIA Corporation · 2012
- Circuit for selectively providing maximum or minimum of a pair of floating point operands6US 7,228,324 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2007
- Circuit for selectively providing maximum or minimum of a pair of floating point operands4US 8,793,294 B2Oracle America, Inc. · 2014