G06F 8/70
Software maintenance or management
G06F8/70 (Software maintenance or management) appears on 11,241 US grants and 12,869 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 11,241
- Published applications
- 12,869
- Assignees
- 2,382
- Inventors
- 26,332
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 9 | 0 |
| 1993 | 10 | 0 |
| 1994 | 23 | 0 |
| 1995 | 22 | 0 |
| 1996 | 31 | 0 |
| 1997 | 31 | 0 |
| 1998 | 78 | 0 |
| 1999 | 88 | 0 |
| 2000 | 51 | 0 |
| 2001 | 74 | 17 |
| 2002 | 58 | 78 |
| 2003 | 36 | 120 |
| 2004 | 38 | 114 |
| 2005 | 58 | 153 |
| 2006 | 89 | 194 |
| 2007 | 72 | 207 |
| 2008 | 78 | 230 |
| 2009 | 102 | 240 |
| 2010 | 159 | 217 |
| 2011 | 145 | 245 |
| 2012 | 206 | 314 |
| 2013 | 323 | 349 |
| 2014 | 417 | 557 |
| 2015 | 548 | 588 |
| 2016 | 640 | 674 |
| 2017 | 640 | 695 |
| 2018 | 629 | 642 |
| 2019 | 813 | 792 |
| 2020 | 884 | 923 |
| 2021 | 899 | 887 |
| 2022 | 878 | 944 |
| 2023 | 915 | 1021 |
| 2024 | 876 | 955 |
| 2025 | 760 | 854 |
| 2026 | 545 | 859 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 8/71Version control6,678
- G06F 8/75Structural analysis for program understanding1,421
- G06F 8/77Software metrics1,052
- G06F 8/73Program documentation920
- G06F 8/76Adapting program code to run in a different environment694
- G06F 8/72Code refactoring485
- G06F 8/74Reverse engineering363
- G06F 8/78Methods to solve the "year 2000" [y2k] problem87
Recent patents
- Evaluating and remediating source code variability6 Oct 2026US 12,754,722 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Migration from centralized version control system to a distributed version control system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,727 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Systems and methods for public cloud service data querying6 Oct 2026US 12,754,732 B2JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A.
- System and method that assists with automating software engineering tasks6 Oct 2026US 12,754,733 B2Laredo Labs, Inc.
- Program components registration using project metadata6 Oct 2026US 12,754,734 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Development methods and development frameworks for web applications8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310427 A1
- Method of difference update and a system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310448 A1Hyundai Autoever Corp.
- Intelligent stale bug detection and prioritization system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310449 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Context-aware bug grouping and prioritization system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310450 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Apparatus and method for managing operating system based on ai agent8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310451 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Most cited
By later US patents
- Metadevice driver rename/exchange technique for a computer system incorporating a plurality of independent device drivers1,433US 5,802,364 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1998
- Software version management system1,208US 4,558,413 AXerox Corporation · 1985
- Method of and an apparatus for displaying version information and configuration information and a computer-readable recording medium on which a version and configuration information display program is recorded972US 6,301,592 B1Hitachi, Ltd. · 2001
- System, method and article of manufacture for configuration management in a development architecture framework812US 6,256,773 B1Accenture LLP · 2001
- Identification of redundancies and omissions among components of a web based architecture685US 6,536,037 B1Accenture LLP · 2003