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G06E 1/02

operating upon the order or content of the data handled

Introduced: January 1990

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

Devices for processing exclusively digital data > operating upon the order or content of the data handled

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES

Filing statistics

IPC G06E 1/02 belongs to the parent subclass G06E, which recorded 1,661 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 129 in 2013 to 209 in 2023 (+62%), peaking at 323 applications in 2021. The most active applicants in class G06 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (66,669 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (62,313 applications) and MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING (41,918 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

2 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06E 1/04 for performing computations using exclusively denominational number representation, e.g. using binary, ternary, decimal representation
  • G06E 1/06 for performing computations using a digital non-denominational number representation, i.e. number representation without radix; using combinations of denominational and non-denominational number representations

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505