B07C 5/36
Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
Official title: Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution {(sorting according to destination B07C3/003, B07C3/02)}
B07C5/36 (Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution) appears on 1,737 US grants and 1,435 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 1,737
- Published applications
- 1,435
- Assignees
- 953
- Inventors
- 3,369
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 18 | 0 |
| 1977 | 12 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 15 | 0 |
| 1980 | 9 | 0 |
| 1981 | 11 | 0 |
| 1982 | 21 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 24 | 4 |
| 2002 | 23 | 27 |
| 2003 | 23 | 25 |
| 2004 | 29 | 21 |
| 2005 | 13 | 26 |
| 2006 | 17 | 22 |
| 2007 | 14 | 23 |
| 2008 | 15 | 20 |
| 2009 | 12 | 18 |
| 2010 | 15 | 25 |
| 2011 | 20 | 28 |
| 2012 | 21 | 17 |
| 2013 | 13 | 24 |
| 2014 | 34 | 30 |
| 2015 | 32 | 60 |
| 2016 | 51 | 34 |
| 2017 | 35 | 51 |
| 2018 | 56 | 77 |
| 2019 | 66 | 85 |
| 2020 | 78 | 138 |
| 2021 | 88 | 111 |
| 2022 | 117 | 134 |
| 2023 | 101 | 121 |
| 2024 | 145 | 136 |
| 2025 | 115 | 112 |
| 2026 | 79 | 66 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for materials recovery using a mobile materials recovery facility (MMRF)6 Oct 2026US 12,752,308 B2Wm Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
- Apparatus and related systems and methods for selecting target particles from a feedstream6 Oct 2026US 12,752,309 B2Eco Metals Recovery (Holding) Limited
- Item inventory management system with vacuum-operated sorter6 Oct 2026US 12,752,310 B2eBay Inc.
- Conveying method and conveying apparatus for goods of multiple orders6 Oct 2026US 12,755,243 B2Dürkopp Fördertechnik GmbH
- Efficient material recovery facility29 Sep 2026US 12,746,581 B2AMP Robotics Corporation
- Intermittent motion scale conveyor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298696 A1Mettler-Toledo AG
- Article loading system and method for multilevel sorter24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284710 A1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Container testing equipment17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273580 A1Chemlex Pte. Ltd.
- Waste sorting system through air direction control17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273584 A1Aetech Corporation
- Packaging system and methods for detecting and removing malformed cartons17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274485 A1R. A. Jones & Co. Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for reading and distributing cards, in particular playing cards257US 4,822,050 AActiciel S.A. · 1989
- Track-type sortation system234US 6,762,382 B1Innovative Picking Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Direct transfer sorting system180US 4,895,242 AG B Instruments, Inc. · 1990
- Coincidence arbitration in a flow cytomery sorting system167US 4,981,580 ACoulter Corporation · 1991
- Segmented tilt tray sorter165US 6,246,023 B1Siemens ElectroCom, L.P. · 2001