G10H 2240/046
File format, i.e. specific or non-standard musical file format used in or
Official title: File format, i.e. specific or non-standard musical file format used in or adapted for electrophonic musical instruments, e.g. in wavetables
G10H2240/046 (File format, i.e. specific or non-standard musical file format used in or) appears on 538 US grants and 474 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10H- Granted patents
- 538
- Published applications
- 474
- Assignees
- 213
- Inventors
- 890
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 12 | 0 |
| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999 | 45 | 0 |
| 2000 | 27 | 0 |
| 2001 | 18 | 9 |
| 2002 | 19 | 53 |
| 2003 | 29 | 59 |
| 2004 | 21 | 50 |
| 2005 | 34 | 38 |
| 2006 | 35 | 21 |
| 2007 | 31 | 30 |
| 2008 | 29 | 30 |
| 2009 | 17 | 20 |
| 2010 | 23 | 12 |
| 2011 | 20 | 7 |
| 2012 | 13 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 | 7 |
| 2014 | 11 | 8 |
| 2015 | 10 | 9 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9 |
| 2017 | 8 | 7 |
| 2018 | 5 | 11 |
| 2019 | 14 | 19 |
| 2020 | 12 | 12 |
| 2021 | 11 | 18 |
| 2022 | 10 | 12 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 |
| 2025 | 11 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G10H 2240/056Midi or other note-oriented file formatIndexing code368
- G10H 2240/061Mp3, i.e. mpeg-1 or mpeg-2 audio layer iii, lossy audio compressionIndexing code136
- G10H 2240/066Mpeg audio-visual compression file formatsIndexing code58
- G10H 2240/071Wave, i.e. waveform audio file format, codingIndexing code43
- G10H 2240/051Ac3, i.e. audio codec 3, dolby digitalIndexing code12
Recent patents
- System, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for collaborating on a musical composition over a communication network25 Aug 2026US 12,718,785 B2Mixed In Key LLC
- Output-based attribution for content, including musical content, generated by an artificial intelligence (AI)3 Mar 2026US 12,567,396 B2Sureel Inc.
- Control device, control method, and control system30 Dec 2025US 12,512,086 B2Roland Corporation
- Methods and systems for facilitating generating music in real-time using progressive parameters30 Sep 2025US 12,427,419 B2
- Real-time music generation engine for interactive systems9 Sep 2025US 12,412,551 B2Reactional Music Group AB
- Time-bin qubit converter8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311727 A1Psiquantum, Corp.
- Generating spatial metadata by performers20 Aug 2026US 2026/0247098 A1Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Output-based attribution for musical content generated by an artificial intelligence (ai)12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045242 A1Sureel Inc.
- Audio Techniques for Music Content Generation5 Feb 2026US 2026/0037211 A1AiMi Inc.
- Expressive Note and Chord Detection and Evaluation5 Feb 2026US 2026/0038468 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and methods for selecting music on the basis of subjective content1,226US 5,616,876 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1997
- Integration of music from a personal library with real-time information1,026US 6,192,340 B12001
- Multimedia content delivery system and method935US 6,248,946 B1iJockey, Inc. · 2001
- Method and apparatus for uploading, indexing, analyzing, and searching media content622US 6,374,260 B1Magnifi, Inc. · 2002
- Music organizer and entertainment center506US 5,969,283 ALooney Productions, LLC · 1999