- All sections
- G - Physics
- G06F - Electric digital data processing
- G06F 16/58 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
Patent holdings for IPC class G06F 16/58
Total number of patents in this class: 1734
10-year publication summary
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54
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152
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197
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288
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304
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282
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219
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192
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168
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69
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| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | 41828 |
109 |
| International Business Machines Corporation | 61023 |
52 |
| Adobe Inc. | 7105 |
51 |
| Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 53512 |
47 |
| eBay Inc. | 3355 |
36 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 144143 |
35 |
| Snap Inc. | 5707 |
32 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 29228 |
30 |
| Canon Inc. | 39442 |
28 |
| Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 26466 |
22 |
| Sony Corporation | 31148 |
21 |
| Adeia Guides Inc. | 3174 |
20 |
| Dropbox, Inc. | 1500 |
19 |
| Apple Inc. | 54479 |
18 |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 110995 |
18 |
| META Platforms, Inc. | 7165 |
18 |
| Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd | 1590 |
17 |
| Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited | 14547 |
17 |
| Shutterstock, Inc., DBA Shutterstock | 181 |
15 |
| NEC Corporation | 35351 |
14 |
| Other owners | 1115 |