E05B 73/0017
Anti-theft devices
Official title: {Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops}
E05B73/0017 (Anti-theft devices) appears on 903 US grants and 846 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E05B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 846
- Assignees
- 284
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- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Anti-theft device28 Jul 2026US 12,692,726 B2
- Double-ring electronic anti-theft lock21 Jul 2026US 12,687,046 B2Guangzhou Hanex Hardware and Electronics Limited
- Electronically releasable apparatus16 Jun 2026US 12,655,660 B2Two Ton Technology, LLC
- Magnetic detacher2 Jun 2026US D1,128,617 S1Sensormatic Electronics Corporation · Design
- Security tag housing26 May 2026US 12,637,271 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Slide shoe tag8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308941 A1Industrial Security Solutions, Corp.
- Anti-theft device for blister packages and the like1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296757 A1Industrial Security Solutions, Corp.
- Electronically releasable apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275773 A1Two Ton Technology, LLC
- Alarm tag with combination access13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234967 A1Control Group Companies, LLC
- Magnetically released lock assembly23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210155 A1Yondr, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Combined article surveillance and product identification system380US 5,955,951 ASensormatic Electronics Corporation · 1999
- Wireless transmitter key for EAS tag detacher unit169US 5,942,978 ASensormatic Electronics Corporation · 1999
- Electronic article surveillance security device106US 5,969,613 AAlpha Enterprises, Inc. · 1999
- Security apparatus for electronic article surveillance tag100US 6,535,130 B2Sensormatic Electronics Corporation · 2003
- Programmable key for a security system for protecting merchandise100US 7,737,845 B2InVue Security Products Inc. · 2010