B07C 1/04
Forming a stream from a bulk
Official title: Forming a stream from a bulk; Controlling the stream, e.g. spacing the articles
B07C1/04 (Forming a stream from a bulk) appears on 140 US grants and 116 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 140
- Published applications
- 116
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 310
- Latest grant
- 3 Mar 2026
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| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2022 | 7 | 12 |
| 2023 | 9 | 6 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 8 | 5 |
| 2026 | 2 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Robotic merge induction23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208974 A1
- Mail processing system with a mail hazard screening machine28 May 2026US 2026/0148581 A1Tritek Technologies, Inc.
- Package detection and intelligent sorting5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182035 A1Laitram, L. L. C.
- Devices and corresponding methods to reduce sorting of mailings to produce grouped mailings1 May 2025US 2025/0135498 A1Broadridge Output Solutions, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Postal sorting machine with a feed inlet having a robotized arm and a sloping flat conveyor124US 9,878,349 B2Solystic · 2018
- Mail singulation and culling system64US 4,136,780 ABurroughs Corporation · 1979
- Apparatus for sorting and distributing mail pieces63US 4,963,251 AFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. · 1990
- Installation for separating and singulating non-uniform postal articles with a vision system having laser sources55US 10,058,896 B2Solystic · 2018
- Singulation of arbitrary mixed items55US 10,906,188 B1Dexterity, Inc. · 2021