B29B 2017/0279
Optical identification
Official title: {Optical identification, e.g. cameras or spectroscopy}
B29B2017/0279 (Optical identification) appears on 144 US grants and 204 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 204
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Computer-controlled system and method for sorting plastic items78US 5,150,307 AAutomation Industrial Control, Inc. · 1992
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