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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: 1017

10-year publication summary

59
107
115
93
124
103
85
58
58
23
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
Intel Corporation
47102
68
Dell Products L.P.
16972
38
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
54439
23
International Business Machines Corporation
62621
20
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
157557
18
ICTK Holdings Co., Ltd.
51
18
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
48248
17
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
25216
16
Bluefin Payment Systems LLC
50
13
Google LLC
44482
13
Qualcomm Incorporated
91997
12
Micron Technology, Inc.
27626
12
Somos, Inc.
117
12
Cryptography Research, Inc.
322
11
Lexmark International, Inc.
1541
9
Nokomis, Inc.
73
9
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
11042
8
Watanabe, Yukiko
8
8
Texas Instruments Incorporated
19663
7
The 41st Parameter, Inc.
67
7
Other owners 678