DIFF Main Group
G16C 20/00 Chemoinformatics, i.e. ICT specially adapted for the handling of physicochemical or structural data of chemical particles, elements, compounds or mixtures
Introduced: January 2019
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
IPC defines codes here since 2019.
Child Classifications
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- G16C 20/10 Analysis or design of chemical reactions, syntheses or processes since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16C 20/20 Identification of molecular entities, parts thereof or of chemical compositions since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16C 20/30 Prediction of properties of chemical compounds, compositions or mixtures since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16C 20/40 Searching chemical structures or physicochemical data since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16C 20/70 Machine learning, data mining or chemometrics since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G16C 20/90 Programming languages; Computing architectures; Database systems; Data warehousing since 2019 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
- ILLUMINA US 1,097
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
- FUJIFILM JP 990
- PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
- ROCHE CH 864
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G16,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 7,379
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,740
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,388
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,849
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,697
- FUJIFILM JP 1,618
- ILLUMINA US 1,335
- ROCHE CH 1,264
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 1,181
- DEXCOM US 1,150