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IPC Main Group
G16B 40/00

ICT specially adapted for biostatistics; ICT specially adapted for bioinformatics-related machine learning or data mining, e.g. knowledge discovery or pattern finding

Introduced: January 2019

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
Subclass:
BIOINFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR GENETIC OR PROTEIN-RELATED DATA PROCESSING IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

3 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G16B 40/1 Signal processing, e.g. from mass spectrometry [MS] or from PCR
  • G16B 40/2 Supervised data analysis
  • G16B 40/3 Unsupervised data analysis

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G16, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
  4. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
  5. ILLUMINA US 1,097
  6. SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
  7. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
  8. FUJIFILM JP 990
  9. PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
  10. ROCHE CH 864