H04L 67/12
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments
Official title: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
H04L67/12 (Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments) appears on 27,563 US grants and 34,968 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 27,563
- Published applications
- 34,968
- Assignees
- 7,365
- Inventors
- 54,227
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 11 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 20 | 0 |
| 1999 | 22 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | 0 |
| 2001 | 37 | 41 |
| 2002 | 71 | 224 |
| 2003 | 82 | 246 |
| 2004 | 107 | 295 |
| 2005 | 115 | 406 |
| 2006 | 188 | 511 |
| 2007 | 175 | 506 |
| 2008 | 197 | 640 |
| 2009 | 232 | 600 |
| 2010 | 415 | 636 |
| 2011 | 437 | 578 |
| 2012 | 522 | 691 |
| 2013 | 563 | 739 |
| 2014 | 712 | 1072 |
| 2015 | 835 | 1581 |
| 2016 | 1070 | 2053 |
| 2017 | 1542 | 2616 |
| 2018 | 1878 | 2775 |
| 2019 | 2549 | 3336 |
| 2020 | 2977 | 3398 |
| 2021 | 2687 | 2913 |
| 2022 | 2725 | 2768 |
| 2023 | 2528 | 2061 |
| 2024 | 2140 | 1845 |
| 2025 | 1755 | 1492 |
| 2026 | 920 | 945 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fluid measuring reservoir for breast pumps6 Oct 2026US 12,754,055 B2Willow Innovations, Inc.
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion6 Oct 2026US 12,754,977 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- Attribution system and method for moving out-of-home advertising6 Oct 2026US 12,755,301 B2Wrapmate LLC
- System and method of identifying equipment6 Oct 2026US 12,755,583 B2Cqms Razer Pty Ltd
- System and method for cross-vehicle data collection abstraction6 Oct 2026US 12,755,584 B2Fca US LLC
- Real-time driving data insight system and method with edge computing and artificial intelligence tools8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307657 A1State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
- Method for automatically configuring control units of a control system and control system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307659 A1
- Internet of things (iot) system for the control of smart gas pressure regulation station8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310247 A1Chengdu Qinchuan Iot Technology Co., Ltd.
- Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310248 A1Roku, Inc.
- Apparatus, Systems, and Methods for Self-Executing Enhanced Interaction with a Node-based Logistics Receptacle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311111 A1Federal Express Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- System and method for monitoring and controlling remote devices1,585US 6,437,692 B1StatSignal Systems, Inc. · 2002
- Method for collecting and processing data using internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)1,054US 7,020,701 B1Sensoria Corporation · 2006
- Mobile portable wireless communication system1,010US 5,732,074 ACellport Labs, Inc. · 1998
- Smart remote monitoring system and method1,009US 6,553,336 B1Telemonitor, Inc. · 2003