G09G 3/20
Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators
Official title: for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters}
G09G3/20 (Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators) appears on 66,711 US grants and 78,668 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G09G- Granted patents
- 66,711
- Published applications
- 78,668
- Assignees
- 4,897
- Inventors
- 55,870
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 37 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 30 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 25 | 0 |
| 1982 | 33 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 654 | 381 |
| 2002 | 679 | 1344 |
| 2003 | 703 | 1317 |
| 2004 | 856 | 1721 |
| 2005 | 867 | 2450 |
| 2006 | 1339 | 2923 |
| 2007 | 1226 | 2991 |
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| 2011 | 2021 | 2698 |
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| 2014 | 2528 | 2807 |
| 2015 | 2704 | 3110 |
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| 2017 | 3108 | 3640 |
| 2018 | 3242 | 3781 |
| 2019 | 4052 | 4085 |
| 2020 | 4183 | 3909 |
| 2021 | 4015 | 4616 |
| 2022 | 4053 | 4042 |
| 2023 | 3678 | 3967 |
| 2024 | 4046 | 4477 |
| 2025 | 3996 | 3791 |
| 2026 | 2614 | 2812 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G09G 3/34By control of light from an independent source33,877
- G09G 3/22Using controlled light sources30,828
- G09G 3/2007Display of intermediate tones8,812
- G09G 3/2092Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating4,640
- G09G 3/2003Display of colours4,014
- G09G 3/2085Special arrangements for addressing the individual elements of the matrix, other than542
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