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  • G - Physics
  • G06F - Electric digital data processing
  • G06F 21/73 - Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer to assure secure computing or processing of information by creating or determining hardware identification, e.g. serial numbers

Patent holdings for IPC class G06F 21/73

Total number of patents in this class: 994

10-year publication summary

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59
107
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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
Intel Corporation
46445
69
Dell Products L.P.
15303
37
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
54267
22
International Business Machines Corporation
61734
20
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
148924
18
ICTK Holdings Co., Ltd.
51
18
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
46069
17
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
25592
15
Google LLC
43044
13
Micron Technology, Inc.
26502
12
Bluefin Payment Systems LLC
49
12
Cryptography Research, Inc.
315
11
Qualcomm Incorporated
87475
10
Lexmark International, Inc.
1644
9
Nokomis, Inc.
72
9
Watanabe, Yukiko
8
8
Texas Instruments Incorporated
19493
7
The 41st Parameter, Inc.
69
7
CTK Co., Ltd.
80
7
Data I/O Corporation
67
7
Other owners 666