G06F 9/4401
Bootstrapping
Official title: Bootstrapping (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57)
G06F9/4401 (Bootstrapping) appears on 12,395 US grants and 13,326 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 12,395
- Published applications
- 13,326
- Assignees
- 2,312
- Inventors
- 23,250
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 0 |
| 1993 | 29 | 0 |
| 1994 | 33 | 0 |
| 1995 | 56 | 0 |
| 1996 | 63 | 0 |
| 1997 | 74 | 0 |
| 1998 | 129 | 0 |
| 1999 | 141 | 0 |
| 2000 | 131 | 0 |
| 2001 | 169 | 46 |
| 2002 | 153 | 241 |
| 2003 | 165 | 343 |
| 2004 | 199 | 356 |
| 2005 | 168 | 387 |
| 2006 | 275 | 375 |
| 2007 | 253 | 395 |
| 2008 | 245 | 384 |
| 2009 | 267 | 376 |
| 2010 | 295 | 330 |
| 2011 | 311 | 340 |
| 2012 | 312 | 429 |
| 2013 | 391 | 475 |
| 2014 | 466 | 665 |
| 2015 | 553 | 620 |
| 2016 | 644 | 734 |
| 2017 | 657 | 787 |
| 2018 | 672 | 751 |
| 2019 | 816 | 780 |
| 2020 | 841 | 799 |
| 2021 | 773 | 809 |
| 2022 | 787 | 725 |
| 2023 | 733 | 725 |
| 2024 | 737 | 570 |
| 2025 | 480 | 491 |
| 2026 | 311 | 393 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Managing motherboard replacement at an information handling system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,741 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Bios-initialization-based capabilities configuration system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,742 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Port configuration method, component, and hard disk expansion apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,743 B2Suzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
- Automated infrastructure management for computer systems based on system rules, templates, and system state with deployment of computing environments6 Oct 2026US 12,754,773 B2Net-Thunder, LLC
- Trust zone attestation for secure loading of service OS6 Oct 2026US 12,755,022 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Memory performing training operation, memory system, and operation method of the memory system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310468 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Method of booting an nfc device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310469 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Methods, controllers, and machine-readable storage media for automated commissioning of equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313820 A1PassiveLogic, Inc.
- Electronic device and electronic device control method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299962 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Method for reducing inrush current1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299963 A1Resideo USA LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Home audio/video network with two level device control1,918US 6,032,202 ASony Corporation of Japan · 2000
- Metadevice driver rename/exchange technique for a computer system incorporating a plurality of independent device drivers1,433US 5,802,364 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1998
- Downloading operating system software through a broadcast channel820US 5,666,293 ABell Atlantic Network Services, Inc. · 1997
- Device access and control using embedded web access functionality575US 6,139,177 AHewlett-Packard Company · 2000
- Digital rights management operating system562US 6,330,670 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2001