G06F 8/72
Code refactoring
G06F8/72 (Code refactoring) appears on 485 US grants and 579 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 485
- Published applications
- 579
- Assignees
- 191
- Inventors
- 1,267
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 3 | 5 |
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| 2019 | 32 | 43 |
| 2020 | 40 | 32 |
| 2021 | 42 | 39 |
| 2022 | 41 | 34 |
| 2023 | 51 | 40 |
| 2024 | 38 | 44 |
| 2025 | 26 | 30 |
| 2026 | 23 | 57 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Automating identification of test cases for library suggestion models6 Oct 2026US 12,754,827 B2Dev-Factory Innovations FZ-LLC
- Automatically generating models for data flow analysis using machine learning22 Sep 2026US 12,743,275 B1Black Duck Software, Inc.
- Source code optimization8 Sep 2026US 12,730,619 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Artificial intelligence models for refactoring software programs1 Sep 2026US 12,724,605 B2Architecture Technology Corporation
- Refactoring legacy software using syntax trees representing source code1 Sep 2026US 12,724,606 B2Architecture Technology Corporation
- Processor controlled programmable logic device modification1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299908 A1Altera Corporation
- Auditable authorship attribution with automatically applied authorship tokens3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259704 A1U.S. Bank National Association
- System upgrading method and apparatus, and device and storage medium13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236248 A1China Unionpay Co., Ltd.
- Techniques for processing code by means of machine learning models6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227962 A1
- Method and system for identifying domain aligned microservices in enterprise applications6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228110 A1Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cloud-based indexing for integrated development environments110US 8,667,456 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- System and methodology providing compiler-assisted refactoring89US 6,804,682 B1Borland Software Corporation · 2004
- Fully capturing outer variables as data objects63US 8,060,868 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2011
- System and methodology providing automated selection adjustment for refactoring61US 6,807,548 B1Borland Software Corporation · 2004
- System and methodology for asynchronous code refactoring with symbol injection52US 7,370,318 B1Borland Software Corporation · 2008