G11B 19/025
'virtual' control panels
Official title: {'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]}
G11B19/025 ('virtual' control panels) appears on 322 US grants and 440 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 322
- Published applications
- 440
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 593
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 24 |
| 2003 | 5 | 19 |
| 2004 | 4 | 32 |
| 2005 | 6 | 29 |
| 2006 | 11 | 47 |
| 2007 | 9 | 37 |
| 2008 | 11 | 36 |
| 2009 | 15 | 29 |
| 2010 | 40 | 29 |
| 2011 | 16 | 14 |
| 2012 | 29 | 16 |
| 2013 | 24 | 22 |
| 2014 | 31 | 15 |
| 2015 | 23 | 23 |
| 2016 | 20 | 12 |
| 2017 | 10 | 9 |
| 2018 | 13 | 5 |
| 2019 | 12 | 11 |
| 2020 | 9 | 5 |
| 2021 | 6 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 7 | 6 |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Computer program, method, and system for managing multiple data recording devices18 Aug 2026US 12,711,989 B2Kustom Entertainment, Inc.
- Multimedia player displaying operation panel depending on contents19 May 2026US 12,634,547 B2Maxell, Ltd.
- Systems and methods for networked music playback10 Mar 2026US 12,574,590 B2Sonos, Inc.
- Location based playback system control6 Jan 2026US 12,519,999 B2Sonos, Inc.
- Multimedia player displaying operation panel depending on contents4 Feb 2025US 12,219,202 B2Maxell, Ltd.
- Location Based Playback System Control3 Sep 2026US 2026/0261727 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Multimedia player displaying operation panel depending on contents24 Apr 2025US 2025/0133259 A1Maxell, Ltd.
- Computer program, method, and system for managing multiple data recording devices16 Jan 2025US 2025/0022483 A1Digital Ally, Inc.
- Playback Zone Management9 Jan 2025US 2025/0013350 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Playback Modification Based On Proximity9 Jan 2025US 2025/0013360 A1Sonos, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Programmable remote control device for interacting with a plurality of remotely controlled devices1,549US 5,410,326 A1995
- Multimedia user interface301US 7,233,316 B2Thomson Licensing · 2007
- Taskbar media player291US 7,757,182 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2010
- Navigating media content via groups within a playlist263US 7,043,477 B2Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2006
- Menu display apparatus and menu display method239US 7,096,431 B2Sony Corporation · 2006