D06F 93/00
Counting, sorting, or marking arrangements specially adapted for laundry purposes
D06F93/00 (Counting, sorting, or marking arrangements specially adapted for laundry purposes) appears on 151 US grants and 156 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 156
- Assignees
- 81
- Inventors
- 328
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2023 | 11 | 10 |
| 2024 | 16 | 14 |
| 2025 | 7 | 8 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Autonomous devices, systems, and methods for sorting and packing folded household laundry16 Jun 2026US 12,655,577 B2
- Electronic device for generating clothing management information and method of controlling the same21 Apr 2026US 12,608,965 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- System for indexing and orienting garments7 Apr 2026US 12,595,620 B2
- System and method of laundry singulation and flattening24 Mar 2026US 12,584,268 B2
- System and method of laundry sorting24 Mar 2026US 12,584,269 B2
- Distributed networked laundry machine control and operation using laundry robotics systems26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085466 A1Clarified Inc.
- Method and system for handling and transporting laundry in bags5 Feb 2026US 2026/0035856 A1Inwatec Aps
- Garment classifying and sorting system and method11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375795 A1The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited
- Garment sorting and processing system and method13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348700 A1Cintas Corporate Services, Inc.
- Automatic clothes folding machine14 Aug 2025US 2025/0257520 A1
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- Internet enabled resource constrained terminal for processing tags74US 6,793,127 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2004
- Linen sorter with a conveyor mounting individual linen pickers43US 4,036,365 ABurlington Industries, Inc. · 1977
- Conveyor system with a computer controlled first sort conveyor34US 5,687,850 AWhite Conveyors, Inc. · 1997