G06F 9/4492
Inheritance
Official title: {Inheritance}
G06F9/4492 (Inheritance) appears on 233 US grants and 186 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 233
- Published applications
- 186
- Assignees
- 94
- Inventors
- 491
- Latest grant
- 3 Mar 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 6 | 13 |
| 2003 | 7 | 20 |
| 2004 | 13 | 18 |
| 2005 | 14 | 12 |
| 2006 | 21 | 9 |
| 2007 | 5 | 16 |
| 2008 | 8 | 12 |
| 2009 | 11 | 9 |
| 2010 | 19 | 5 |
| 2011 | 11 | 3 |
| 2012 | 10 | 11 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 | 9 |
| 2016 | 11 | 6 |
| 2017 | 8 | 6 |
| 2018 | 8 | 5 |
| 2019 | 4 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6 | 6 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Selection of ranked configurations3 Mar 2026US 12,566,588 B2Google Inc.
- Attribute inheritance of related objects for a digital object architecture3 Jun 2025US 12,321,759 B1VeriSign, Inc.
- Distinguished nest-based access control3 Dec 2024US 12,158,952 B2Oracle International Corporation
- Virtual object structures and interrelationships10 Sep 2024US 12,086,932 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Virtual object structures and interrelationships5 Sep 2023US 11,748,944 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- System and method for interpreting superclass behavior in dynamic language computer code5 Feb 2026US 2026/0037408 A1CrowdStrike, Inc.
- Software design pattern for achieving clean multiple inheritance in Object Oriented Programming19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199773 A1
- Virtual Object Structures and Interrelationships3 Oct 2024US 2024/0331287 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Method of Providing a Software Configuration for a Modular Plant28 Mar 2024US 2024/0103471 A1ABB Schweiz AG
- Virtual Object Structures and Interrelationships3 Aug 2023US 2023/0245386 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- System, method, and article of manufacture for a polymorphic exception handler in environment services patterns313US 6,502,213 B1Accenture LLP · 2002
- High-level language for specifying configurations of cloud-based deployments211US 8,261,295 B1Google Inc. · 2012
- Method for apparatus for implementing a class hierarchy of objects in a hierarchical file system167US 5,187,786 ASun Microsystems, Inc. · 1993
- Method for determining a user selected group of data objects for the propagation of attribute values126US 5,241,624 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993
- Method and apparatus for configuring systems115US 6,002,854 ATrilogy Developmetn Group, Inc. · 1999