CPC Main Group
G06K 13/00 Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism (conveying record carriers combined with another operation, e.g. with reading G06K17/00)
Filing statistics
CPC G06K 13/00 belongs to the parent subclass G06K, which recorded 154,464 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 9,623 in 2013 to 11,042 in 2023 (+15%), peaking at 17,895 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class G06 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (76,952 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (62,841 applications) and MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING (44,778 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
2 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06K 13/02 the record carrier having longitudinal dimension comparable with transverse dimension, e.g. punched card
- G06K 13/18 the record carrier being longitudinally extended, e.g. punched tape
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
- GOOGLE US 35,735
- INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
- APPLE US 23,482
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917