H03M 7/16
Conversion to or from unit-distance codes
Official title: Conversion to or from unit-distance codes, e.g. Gray code, reflected binary code
H03M7/16 (Conversion to or from unit-distance codes) appears on 263 US grants and 189 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03M- Granted patents
- 263
- Published applications
- 189
- Assignees
- 149
- Inventors
- 491
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2 |
| 2002 | 6 | 1 |
| 2003 | 8 | 10 |
| 2004 | 9 | 13 |
| 2005 | 12 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 |
| 2010 | 9 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7 |
| 2016 | 13 | 5 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6 |
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| 2019 | 20 | 21 |
| 2020 | 22 | 8 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 |
| 2022 | 7 | 12 |
| 2023 | 17 | 16 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 |
| 2025 | 9 | 11 |
| 2026 | 1 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Encoder14 Apr 2026US 12,603,662 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Object detection improvement based on autonomously selected training samples25 Nov 2025US 12,483,266 B2Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
- Imaging element, signal processing method for imaging element, and electronic equipment18 Nov 2025US 12,477,251 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Labeling for higher order modulation polar codes29 Jul 2025US 12,375,100 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Hybrid rate interface to reduce power consumption and area in high-speed DACs and digital transmitters29 Jul 2025US 12,375,102 B2Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
- Technique for generating a new output value for inclusion within a sequence of output values that are output in a given representation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312602 A1Arm Limited
- Data converter based on semiconductor devices13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238220 A1Seoul National University R&Db Foundation
- Encoder30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221985 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Gray coding mechanism to reduce metal usage18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169932 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Low power filtering of pulse density modulated data using a digital filter with gray encoding/decoding18 Jun 2026US 2026/0172046 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Track identification codewords having multiple bit error correction capability and generalized gray code property140US 7,099,095 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2006
- Analog-to-digital converter having error detection and correction129US 4,897,657 AIntegrated Device Technology, Inc. · 1990
- Fractional-Bit Systems83US 7,071,849 B22006
- Partitioned digital encoder and method for encoding bit groups in parallel77US 5,243,348 AMotorola, Inc. · 1993
- Digital-to-analog converter using noise-shaped segmentation60US 5,977,899 AAnalog Devices, Inc. · 1999