B07C 7/00
Sorting by hand only e.g. of mail
Official title: Sorting by hand only {e.g. of mail}
B07C7/00 (Sorting by hand only e.g. of mail) appears on 274 US grants and 260 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 274
- Published applications
- 260
- Assignees
- 100
- Inventors
- 418
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2025 | 4 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Material handling apparatus for delivering or retrieving items28 Jul 2026US 12,691,470 B2Opex Corporation
- Sorting system and sorting method26 May 2026US 12,636,681 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- System, apparatus, and method for mobile refuse sorting station12 May 2026US 12,623,848 B2L&R, LLC
- Parcel singulation yield correcting system and method24 Feb 2026US 12,558,710 B2Siemens Logistics LLC
- Wearable reader device technology for guiding a user to load an asset in an assigned logistics vehicle30 Dec 2025US 12,511,606 B2United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Wearable reader device technology for guiding a user to load an asset in an assigned logistics vehicle30 Apr 2026US 2026/0120046 A1United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Light directed singulation quality control25 Dec 2025US 2025/0389672 A1Retiina, LLC
- Sorting system and sorting method19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196193 A1Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for processing objects including semi-autonomous stations and automated output processing29 May 2025US 2025/0171242 A1
- Systems, devices, and methods for enhanced sortation of delivery items8 May 2025US 2025/0144671 A1United States Postal Service
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for sorting items245US 7,861,844 B2Opex Corporation · 2011
- Semi-automated integrated sort system195US 5,794,789 A1998
- Combination disposal and dispensing apparatus and method127US 8,195,328 B2Vesta Medical, LLC · 2012
- Networked waste processing apparatus122US 7,328,842 B2Ikan Technologies Inc. · 2008
- Teleoperated robotic sorting system115US 6,124,560 ANational Recovery Technologies, Inc. · 2000