G06F 8/71
Version control
Official title: Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management
G06F8/71 (Version control) appears on 6,678 US grants and 7,583 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 6,678
- Published applications
- 7,583
- Assignees
- 1,580
- Inventors
- 16,312
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 34 | 7 |
| 2002 | 26 | 45 |
| 2003 | 16 | 86 |
| 2004 | 20 | 79 |
| 2005 | 39 | 99 |
| 2006 | 59 | 111 |
| 2007 | 54 | 121 |
| 2008 | 45 | 139 |
| 2009 | 62 | 136 |
| 2010 | 99 | 118 |
| 2011 | 80 | 129 |
| 2012 | 121 | 166 |
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| 2021 | 562 | 548 |
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| 2023 | 542 | 627 |
| 2024 | 546 | 604 |
| 2025 | 475 | 535 |
| 2026 | 318 | 431 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Migration from centralized version control system to a distributed version control system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,727 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Program components registration using project metadata6 Oct 2026US 12,754,734 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Automating identification of test cases for library suggestion models6 Oct 2026US 12,754,827 B2Dev-Factory Innovations FZ-LLC
- Methods for managing software supply chain risk through declared intent6 Oct 2026US 12,755,008 B2
- Notifications from an industrial automation development environment29 Sep 2026US 12,748,404 B2Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
- Method of difference update and a system thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310448 A1Hyundai Autoever Corp.
- Automated management of configuration drift for machine learning models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311039 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Caching of compiled shader programs in a cloud computing environment1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299906 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Dependency fulfillment during dynamic imports for extendable frameworks1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299913 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Updating software applications to facilitate compliance with standard requirements in a distributed computing system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299930 A1Truist Bank
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