Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:: PHYSICS
Class:: COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:: GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS

Filing statistics

IPC G06K 13/00 belongs to the parent subclass G06K, which recorded 601,580 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 25,461 in 2013 to 14,926 in 2023 (-41%), peaking at 101,406 applications in 2020. 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

Additional Content

Conveying record carriers combined with another operation, e.g. with reading

Related Keywords

CONVEYING of record carriers operating in digital fashionFEEDING of record carriers operating in digital fashionconveying RECORD(S) carriers in data processing apparatus

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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 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