G06F 7/48
Using non-contact-making devices
Official title: using non-contact-making devices, e.g. tube, solid state device; using unspecified devices
G06F7/48 (Using non-contact-making devices) appears on 8,401 US grants and 7,225 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 7/544For evaluating functions by calculation3,235
- G06F 7/52Multiplying2,276
- G06F 7/483Computations with numbers represented by a non-linear combination of denominational numbers1,981
- G06F 7/50Adding1,802
- G06F 7/499Denomination or exception handling1,550
- G06F 7/57Arithmetic logic units [alu], i.e. arrangements or devices for performing two or958
- G06F 7/491Computations with decimal numbers radix 12 or 20228
- G06F 7/4806Computations with complex numbers173
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