G06F 8/74
Reverse engineering
Official title: Reverse engineering; Extracting design information from source code
G06F8/74 (Reverse engineering) appears on 363 US grants and 409 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 363
- Published applications
- 409
- Assignees
- 174
- Inventors
- 922
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 3 | 7 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 17 |
| 2008 | 5 | 15 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9 |
| 2011 | 7 | 28 |
| 2012 | 17 | 11 |
| 2013 | 21 | 15 |
| 2014 | 27 | 19 |
| 2015 | 29 | 19 |
| 2016 | 29 | 24 |
| 2017 | 23 | 18 |
| 2018 | 21 | 18 |
| 2019 | 15 | 18 |
| 2020 | 21 | 15 |
| 2021 | 16 | 24 |
| 2022 | 19 | 41 |
| 2023 | 32 | 18 |
| 2024 | 20 | 25 |
| 2025 | 11 | 21 |
| 2026 | 17 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Identification of reusable components29 Sep 2026US 12,748,578 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Natural solution language25 Aug 2026US 12,717,552 B2Brane Cognitives Pte. Ltd.
- Systems and methods for reverse engineering-based detection of vulnerabilities28 Jul 2026US 12,694,122 B2BigBear.ai LLC
- Identifying applications impacted by request-related attribute changes14 Jul 2026US 12,681,705 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Automatic binary code understanding16 Jun 2026US 12,657,298 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Methods, controllers, and machine-readable storage media for automated commissioning of equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313820 A1PassiveLogic, Inc.
- Program creation support device and program product17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277604 A1Keyence Corporation
- Automatic Binary Code Understanding17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278093 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Ai based modernization of legacy applications through ontology driven knowledge extraction and relearning13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236800 A1Mphasis Limited
- Model cascade for efficient rule extraction16 Jul 2026US 2026/0203056 A1Fiserv, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Integrated system for software application development293US 10,001,975 B22018
- Controller modules155US 11,229,138 B1PassiveLogic, Inc. · 2022
- Dynamic semi-structured repository for mining software and software-related information71US 6,339,776 B22002
- Methods and systems for identifying dependencies between object-oriented elements68US 7,055,130 B2Borland Software Corporation · 2006
- Method and system of business rule extraction from existing applications for integration into new applications62US 6,389,588 B1Relativity Technologies, Inc. · 2002