B65G 2201/0285
Postal items
Official title: Postal items, e.g. letters, parcels
B65G2201/0285 (Postal items) appears on 172 US grants and 202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 202
- Assignees
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- 337
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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Recent patents
- Dynamic sorting of items in a conveyor system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,712 B2Laitram, L. L. C.
- Automated traying of finished mail11 Aug 2026US 12,703,598 B2DMT Solutions Global Corporation
- Sortation of items using an image fingerprint to right the items30 Jun 2026US 12,668,422 B2United States Postal Service
- Three-dimensional unloading system capable of unloading goods into container and control method of three-dimensional unloading system30 Jun 2026US 12,668,423 B2Zhejiang Libiao Robotics Co., Ltd.
- Storage, retrieval, order sortation and packout9 Jun 2026US 12,649,172 B1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- System for the storage and retrieval of parcels17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274574 A1United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Parcel and Article Sorting System and Method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252067 A1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Live side guide assembly for a skew roller conveyor21 May 2026US 2026/0138832 A1Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
- Systems and methods for maintaining object flow in trailer unloading systems16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102905 A1
- Item autofeed system19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048949 A1United States Postal Service
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
- Parcel and article sorting system and method121US 9,975,148 B2Tompkins International · 2018
- Systems and methods for providing singulation of objects for processing55US 10,538,394 B2Berkshire Grey, Inc. · 2020
- Singulation of arbitrary mixed items55US 10,906,188 B1Dexterity, Inc. · 2021
- Parcel and article sorting system and method16US 10,968,087 B2Tompkins Robotics, Inc. · 2021