G16C 20/40
Searching chemical structures or physicochemical data
G16C20/40 (Searching chemical structures or physicochemical data) appears on 177 US grants and 356 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G16C- Granted patents
- 177
- Published applications
- 356
- Assignees
- 191
- Inventors
- 772
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 | 7 |
| 2003 | 3 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 5 |
| 2006 | 1 | 7 |
| 2007 | 4 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 7 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 | 5 |
| 2011 | 2 | 7 |
| 2012 | 6 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 | 8 |
| 2014 | 5 | 6 |
| 2015 | 6 | 5 |
| 2016 | 2 | 25 |
| 2017 | 3 | 11 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16 |
| 2020 | 6 | 24 |
| 2021 | 18 | 31 |
| 2022 | 13 | 31 |
| 2023 | 14 | 35 |
| 2024 | 20 | 21 |
| 2025 | 20 | 32 |
| 2026 | 11 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Methods and apparatuses for characterizing chemical substances, measuring physicochemical properties and generating control data for synthesizing chemcial substances23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212962 A1BASF SE
- Atomic structure estimation apparatus, atomic structure estimation method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium9 Jul 2026US 2026/0196307 A1Riken
- Testing Routes Using Adaptive Search Retrieval to Obtain Convergence Outputs for Optimizing Ab Initio Solvers11 Jun 2026US 2026/0162776 A1QpiAI India Private Limited
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Relational database management system for chemical structure storage, searching and retrieval123US 6,304,869 B1Oxford Molecular Group, Inc. · 2001
- Solid state light fixture with cooling system with heat rejection management118US 8,651,704 B1Musco Corporation · 2014
- Text influenced molecular indexing system and computer-implemented and/or computer-assisted method for same79US 6,542,903 B2Merck & Co., Inc. · 2003
- Method of storing and searching chemical structure data60US 4,811,217 AJapan Association For International Chemical Information · 1989
- Knowledge-based molecular retrieval system and method using a hierarchy of molecular structures in the knowledge base54US 5,418,944 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995