A47F 9/045
Handling of baskets or shopping trolleys at check-out counters
Official title: {Handling of baskets or shopping trolleys at check-out counters, e.g. unloading, checking}
A47F9/045 (Handling of baskets or shopping trolleys at check-out counters) appears on 49 US grants and 41 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47F- Granted patents
- 49
- Published applications
- 41
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 93
- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty, control device and checkout terminal4 Nov 2025US 12,458,156 B2Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
- Supermarket basket lifting-stacking machine25 Feb 2025US 12,234,109 B2
- Empty bottom shelf of shopping cart monitor and alerting system using distance measuring methods4 Apr 2023US 11,618,490 B2BOB Profit Partners LLC
- Check stand conveyor belt bottom extracted shopping bin15 Dec 2020US 10,863,833 B2
- Method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty and device for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty28 Jan 2020US 10,546,198 B2Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
- Basket lifting-stacking machine9 May 2024US 2024/0148168 A1
- Method, control device and registration terminal for computer-supported detection of the empty state of a transport container27 Apr 2023US 2023/0129779 A1Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH
- Registration apparatus, information processing apparatus, and method24 Nov 2022US 2022/0374857 A1Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Empty bottom shelf of shopping cart monitor and alerting system using distance measuring methods4 Mar 2021US 2021/0061334 A1BOB Profit Partners LLC
- Check stand conveyor belt bottom extracted shopping bin19 Mar 2020US 2020/0085213 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computerized shopping cart with storage and distribution system, for supermarket use117US 6,435,407 B12002
- System and methods for preventing fraud in retail environments, including the detection of empty and non-empty shopping carts115US 5,883,968 AAW Computer Systems, Inc. · 1999
- System and methods for merchandise checkout65US 7,100,824 B2Evolution Robotics, Inc. · 2006
- Automated self-service checkout system60US 4,787,467 A1988
- Product detection system for shopping carts39US 5,485,006 AS.T.O.P. International (Brighton) Inc. · 1996