G01D 4/004
Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location
Official title: {Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location}
G01D4/004 (Remote reading of utility meters to a fixed location) appears on 947 US grants and 1,085 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01D- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,085
- Assignees
- 434
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- 1,641
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Appliance interface apparatus and automated residence management system512US 5,706,191 AGas Research Institute · 1998
- Vehicle locating and communicating method and apparatus using cellular telephone network486US 5,299,132 ABy-Word Technologies, Inc. · 1994
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