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G06M 3/00

Counters with additional facilities

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Filing statistics

IPC G06M 3/00 belongs to the parent subclass G06M, which recorded 11,112 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 597 in 2013 to 1,049 in 2023 (+76%), peaking at 1,602 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

6 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06M 3/06 for printing or separately displaying result of count
  • G06M 3/08 for counting the input from several sources; for counting inputs of different amounts
  • G06M 3/1 for counting denominations with unequal numbers in each stage, e.g. degrees and minutes of angle
  • G06M 3/12 for preventing incorrect actuation, e.g. for preventing falsification
  • G06M 3/14 for registering difference of positive and negative actuations

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