G06Q 20/3821
Electronic credentials
Official title: {Electronic credentials}
G06Q20/3821 (Electronic credentials) appears on 4,046 US grants and 5,788 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 4,046
- Published applications
- 5,788
- Assignees
- 1,439
- Inventors
- 7,913
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
| 1998 | 17 | 0 |
| 1999 | 34 | 0 |
| 2000 | 33 | 0 |
| 2001 | 30 | 22 |
| 2002 | 26 | 115 |
| 2003 | 13 | 84 |
| 2004 | 24 | 68 |
| 2005 | 53 | 94 |
| 2006 | 94 | 71 |
| 2007 | 58 | 89 |
| 2008 | 77 | 149 |
| 2009 | 63 | 126 |
| 2010 | 104 | 77 |
| 2011 | 105 | 50 |
| 2012 | 94 | 113 |
| 2013 | 75 | 166 |
| 2014 | 92 | 163 |
| 2015 | 88 | 189 |
| 2016 | 103 | 244 |
| 2017 | 115 | 206 |
| 2018 | 121 | 221 |
| 2019 | 165 | 352 |
| 2020 | 225 | 495 |
| 2021 | 324 | 540 |
| 2022 | 387 | 556 |
| 2023 | 408 | 484 |
| 2024 | 485 | 455 |
| 2025 | 376 | 392 |
| 2026 | 230 | 267 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Universal payment channel6 Oct 2026US 12,755,261 B2Visa International Service Association
- Server-to-device secure data exchange authorized session management6 Oct 2026US 12,755,276 B2Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
- Blockchain-based user element authorization methods and apparatuses6 Oct 2026US 12,755,283 B2Ant Blockchain Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- Selecting a contingent action token6 Oct 2026US 12,756,567 B22BC Innovations, LLC
- System and process for electronic payments29 Sep 2026US 12,749,059 B2Bank of Montreal
- Tokenizing a primary account number prior to transmission to a terminal8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311167 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Settlement terminal system and information relay method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311170 A1Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Randomized application transaction counter8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311171 A1Visa International Service Association
- Autonomous computing system for digital asset redemption state control and synchronization of distributed ledger records8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312810 A1
- Interconnected exchange of payment information for value transactions settled on distributed ledger networks1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300945 A1Sap SE
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic funds transfer instruments1,431US 5,677,955 ABell Communications Research, Inc. · 1997
- Trusted agents for open electronic commerce1,044US 5,557,518 ACitibank, N. A. · 1996
- Steganographic techniques for securely delivering electronic digital rights management control information over insecure communication channels1,021US 5,943,422 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Personal information security and exchange tool954US 5,987,440 ACyva Research Corporation · 1999
- Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security873US 6,016,476 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000