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- G - Physics
- G06F - Electric digital data processing
- G06F 7/16 - Combined merging and sorting
Patent holdings for IPC class G06F 7/16
Total number of patents in this class: 78
10-year publication summary
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2
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11
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5
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21
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13
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4
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3
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7
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3
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1
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| International Business Machines Corporation | 61207 |
11 |
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 53649 |
5 |
| EMC IP Holding Company LLC | 10835 |
3 |
| VMware LLC | 6933 |
3 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 145416 |
2 |
| Ericsson | 21704 |
2 |
| Texas Instruments Incorporated | 19480 |
2 |
| Oracle International Corporation | 12925 |
2 |
| SAP SE | 10043 |
2 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 10712 |
2 |
| UNM Rainforest Innovations | 425 |
2 |
| Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. | 4235 |
2 |
| BMC Helix, Inc. | 333 |
2 |
| Apple Inc. | 54658 |
1 |
| NEC Corporation | 35521 |
1 |
| Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | 25903 |
1 |
| Fujitsu Limited | 18343 |
1 |
| Texas Instruments Japan, Ltd. | 1656 |
1 |
| Ricoh Company, Ltd. | 13247 |
1 |
| Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | 9367 |
1 |
| Other owners | 31 |