G06F 7/607
Number-of-ones counters, i.e. devices for counting the number of input lines set
Official title: {number-of-ones counters, i.e. devices for counting the number of input lines set to ONE among a plurality of input lines, also called bit counters or parallel counters (for applications thereof, see the relevant places, e.g. G06F7/49, G06F7/5013, G06F7/509, H03M1/00, H03M7/20)}
G06F7/607 (Number-of-ones counters, i.e. devices for counting the number of input lines set) appears on 134 US grants and 80 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 134
- Published applications
- 80
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 258
- Latest grant
- 25 Mar 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Pop count-based deep learning neural network computation method, multiply accumulator and device25 Mar 2025US 12,260,188 B2Korea Electronics Technology Institute
- Vector population count determination via comparison iterations in memory4 Mar 2025US 12,242,848 B2
- Counter-based multiplication using processing in memory19 Mar 2024US 11,934,798 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Monotonic counter memory system13 Feb 2024US 11,901,899 B2Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Hamming weight calculation method based on operation apparatus14 Nov 2023US 11,817,880 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Logic for detecting zero hot, one hot, and multi-hot vectors11 Jun 2026US 2026/0161731 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Counter with low memory demand5 Feb 2026US 2026/0037354 A1NXP B. V.
- Counter-based multiplication using processing in memory4 Jul 2024US 2024/0220205 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Stochastic computing with generated deterministic sequences30 May 2024US 2024/0176846 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Vector population count determination in memory28 Dec 2023US 2023/0418606 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for designing circuits for wave pipelining258US 5,796,624 AThe Research Foundation of State University of New York · 1998
- Microprocessors194US 6,658,578 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2003
- Digital multiplier employing CMOS transistors162US 5,095,457 ASamsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 1992
- Multiplying unit in a computer system, capable of population counting155US 4,989,168 AFujitsu Limited · 1991
- Generalized 7/3 counters152US 5,187,679 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993