G06F 9/45533
Hypervisors
Official title: {Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors}
G06F9/45533 (Hypervisors) appears on 21,884 US grants and 23,914 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 21,884
- Published applications
- 23,914
- Assignees
- 2,497
- Inventors
- 33,078
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 10 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 8 | 0 |
| 1995 | 13 | 0 |
| 1996 | 21 | 0 |
| 1997 | 17 | 0 |
| 1998 | 41 | 0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 9 |
| 2002 | 23 | 38 |
| 2003 | 17 | 34 |
| 2004 | 42 | 69 |
| 2005 | 19 | 87 |
| 2006 | 42 | 142 |
| 2007 | 61 | 182 |
| 2008 | 60 | 264 |
| 2009 | 87 | 337 |
| 2010 | 160 | 387 |
| 2011 | 189 | 497 |
| 2012 | 379 | 717 |
| 2013 | 582 | 922 |
| 2014 | 816 | 1185 |
| 2015 | 1226 | 1556 |
| 2016 | 1618 | 1739 |
| 2017 | 1617 | 1579 |
| 2018 | 1594 | 1697 |
| 2019 | 1867 | 1995 |
| 2020 | 2226 | 2160 |
| 2021 | 2041 | 1857 |
| 2022 | 1847 | 1728 |
| 2023 | 1750 | 1560 |
| 2024 | 1492 | 1407 |
| 2025 | 1155 | 1082 |
| 2026 | 764 | 684 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 9/45558Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects19,069
- G06F 9/45545Guest-host, i.e. hypervisor is an application program itself851
- G06F 9/45537Provision of facilities of other operating environments715
- G06F 9/45541Bare-metal, i.e. hypervisor runs directly on hardware348
- G06F 9/4555Para-virtualisation, i.e. guest operating system has to be modified239
- G06F 9/45554Instruction set architectures of guest os and hypervisor or native processor differ150
Recent patents
- Display apparatus for vehicles with enhanced data transmission efficiency6 Oct 2026US 12,754,705 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Virtual machine live migration with direct-attached non-volatile memory express device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,752 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Translation of API requests for connection between network management system and managed datacenters6 Oct 2026US 12,754,753 B2VMware, Inc.
- Systems and methods for data storage management6 Oct 2026US 12,754,754 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Enable dial for OTT virtualized applications6 Oct 2026US 12,754,755 B2Thomson Licensing
- Upgrading an infrastructure software stack8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310445 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Method for updating at least one program of firmware of a protection or automation system in the field of electrical energy transmission and distribution8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310447 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- System and method for centralized resource information management in a vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310480 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Container Onboarding in Distributed Cloud Environment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310481 A1Bank of America Corporation
- Method and device for digital twins8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310482 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Authentication and information system for reusable surgical instruments1,080US 10,251,725 B2Covidien LP · 2019
- Computer image capture, customization and deployment985US 7,356,679 B1VMware, Inc. · 2008
- Architecture for managing I/O and storage for a virtualization environment668US 8,601,473 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2013
- Method and system for implementing a maintenanece service for managing I/O and storage for virtualization environment610US 8,549,518 B1Nutanix, Inc. · 2013
- Provisioning of computer systems using virtual machines590US 7,577,722 B1VMware, Inc. · 2009