H03M 11/04
Coding of multifunction keys
H03M11/04 (Coding of multifunction keys) appears on 185 US grants and 133 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03M- Granted patents
- 185
- Published applications
- 133
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 306
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
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| 2004 | 5 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 6 |
| 2008 | 2 | 12 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2019 | 6 | 9 |
| 2020 | 5 | 4 |
| 2021 | 10 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus17 Dec 2024US 12,169,628 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus22 Oct 2024US 12,124,637 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus12 Dec 2023US 11,841,992 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus10 Oct 2023US 11,782,591 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus13 Feb 2025US 2025/0053291 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus29 Feb 2024US 2024/0069648 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus18 Jan 2024US 2024/0019996 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Display apparatus for performing function of user selected menu item on a user interface and method for controlling display apparatus1 Dec 2022US 2022/0382446 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Processing presses of external keyboard function keys according to configuration of internal keyboard function keys9 Jun 2022US 2022/0179501 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pressure password input device and method185US 6,509,847 B1Gateway, Inc. · 2003
- Method of obtaining a second function from keys on a keyboard using pressure differentiation175US 5,675,329 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997
- Menu selection using adaptive force sensing resistor153US 5,184,120 AMotorola, Inc. · 1993
- Method and apparatus for using pushbutton telephone keys for generation of alpha-numeric information140US 3,967,273 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1976
- Device and method for quickly selecting text from a list using a numeric telephone keypad131US 6,735,307 B12004