A47F 10/02
Furniture or installations specially adapted to particular types of service systems, not
Official title: for self-service type systems, e.g. supermarkets (A47F10/06 takes precedence; hand-carts B62B; baskets B65D)
A47F10/02 (Furniture or installations specially adapted to particular types of service systems, not) appears on 414 US grants and 503 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47F- Granted patents
- 414
- Published applications
- 503
- Assignees
- 208
- Inventors
- 766
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 5 |
| 2004 | 4 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 10 |
| 2006 | 4 | 15 |
| 2007 | 4 | 9 |
| 2008 | 5 | 16 |
| 2009 | 1 | 8 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 8 |
| 2012 | 2 | 6 |
| 2013 | 17 | 15 |
| 2014 | 9 | 12 |
| 2015 | 16 | 23 |
| 2016 | 18 | 54 |
| 2017 | 24 | 30 |
| 2018 | 32 | 38 |
| 2019 | 36 | 47 |
| 2020 | 36 | 37 |
| 2021 | 26 | 42 |
| 2022 | 30 | 35 |
| 2023 | 28 | 21 |
| 2024 | 26 | 32 |
| 2025 | 23 | 21 |
| 2026 | 10 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Smart shelving unit with marketing display6 Oct 2026US 12,751,565 B2Green Cubes Technology, LLC
- Shelf-mountable imaging system29 Sep 2026US 12,745,866 B2Target Brands, Inc.
- Systems, devices and methods for determining item availability in a shopping space11 Aug 2026US 12,703,614 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Intelligent cabinet with RF shield11 Aug 2026US 12,707,610 B2Intelligent Fridges B.V.
- Artificial intelligence-operated autonomous point-of-sale cabinet/refrigerator operation systems and provision of retractable video cameras for these systems (machine learning and computer vision)16 Jun 2026US 12,657,564 B2Intuitivo Tech LLC
- Product presentation device with a storage structure for placing objects and with a sensor for detecting inventory1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294136 A1VusionGroup Deutschland GmbH
- Anti-theft retail merchandise pusher with remote alarm feature20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240340 A1Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224046 A1Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Point of sale shopping bag2 Jul 2026US 2026/0182712 A1
- Stackable charging device for shopping carts with onboard computing systems21 May 2026US 2026/0138660 A1Maplebear Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer-controlled system including a printer-dispenser for merchandise coupons160US 5,176,224 A1993
- Shoppers communication system and processes relating thereto154US 5,630,068 A1997
- Electronic pricing display system145US 4,766,295 AH. E. Butt Grocery Company · 1988
- Low stock alert system144US 7,233,241 B2Goliath Solutions, LLC · 2007
- Navigation systems and methods for wheeled objects144US 8,046,160 B2Gatekeeper Systems, Inc. · 2011