IPC Main Group
G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures
Introduced: January 1985
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PHYSICS
- Class:
- COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- Subclass:
- ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
Additional Content
Digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disc storage units
Related Keywords
ADDRESSING memoriesRANDOM access stores in electric digital computers
3 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06F 12/02 Addressing or allocation; Relocation
- G06F 12/14 Protection against unauthorised use of memory
- G06F 12/16 Protection against loss of memory contents
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
- GOOGLE US 32,969
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
- INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
- APPLE US 21,891
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505