CPC Main Group Additional Only
G10H 2240/00 Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments
Filing statistics
CPC G10H 2240/00 belongs to the parent subclass G10H, which recorded 17,124 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 1,186 in 2013 to 1,533 in 2023 (+29%), peaking at 1,888 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class G10 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (6,277 applications), GOOGLE (5,429 applications) and FRAUNHOFER (4,984 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- G10H 2240/005 Data structures for use in electrophonic musical devices; Data structures including musical parameters derived from musical analysis
- G10H 2240/011 Files or data streams containing coded musical information, e.g. for transmission
- G10H 2240/075 Musical metadata derived from musical analysis or for use in electrophonic musical instruments
- G10H 2240/091 Info, i.e. juxtaposition of unrelated auxiliary information or commercial messages with or between music files
- G10H 2240/095 Identification code, e.g. ISWC for musical works; Identification dataset
- G10H 2240/121 Musical libraries, i.e. musical databases indexed by musical parameters, wavetables, indexing schemes using musical parameters, musical rule bases or knowledge bases, e.g. for automatic composing methods
- G10H 2240/161 Memory and use thereof, in electrophonic musical instruments, e.g. memory map
- G10H 2240/171 Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments
- G10H 2240/325 Synchronizing two or more audio tracks or files according to musical features or musical timings
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 6,277
- GOOGLE US 5,429
- FRAUNHOFER DE 4,984
- SONY CORPORATION JP 2,808
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,577
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 2,382
- DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 2,123
- QUALCOMM US 2,117
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,049
- AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,924