IPC Main Group
G16C 20/00 Chemoinformatics, i.e. ICT specially adapted for the handling of physicochemical or structural data of chemical particles, elements, compounds or mixtures
Introduced: January 2019
Classification Context
- Section:
- PHYSICS
- Class:
- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
- Subclass:
- COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; CHEMOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Filing statistics
IPC G16C 20/00 belongs to the parent subclass G16C, which recorded 20,686 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 194 in 2013 to 7,083 in 2023 (+3551%). The most active applicants in class G16 are PHILIPS ELECTRONICS (4,707 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (1,767 applications) and SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (1,458 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- G16C 20/1 Analysis or design of chemical reactions, syntheses or processes
- G16C 20/2 Identification of molecular entities, parts thereof or of chemical compositions
- G16C 20/3 Prediction of properties of chemical compounds, compositions or mixtures
- G16C 20/4 Searching chemical structures or physicochemical data
- G16C 20/5 Molecular design, e.g. of drugs
- G16C 20/6 combinatorial chemistry
- G16C 20/7 Machine learning, data mining or chemometrics
- G16C 20/8 Data visualisation
- G16C 20/9 Programming languages; Computing architectures; Database systems; Data warehousing
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G16, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 4,707
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,767
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,458
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,144
- ILLUMINA US 1,097
- SIEMENS HEALTHCARE DE 1,074
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS 1,026
- FUJIFILM JP 990
- PING AN TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 892
- ROCHE CH 864