G06K 13/0868
Using an arrangement for keeping the feeding or insertion slot of the
Official title: {using an arrangement for keeping the feeding or insertion slot of the card station clean of dirt, or to avoid feeding of foreign or unwanted objects into the slot}
G06K13/0868 (Using an arrangement for keeping the feeding or insertion slot of the) appears on 251 US grants and 182 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 251
- Published applications
- 182
- Assignees
- 129
- Inventors
- 368
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Card reader foreign object detection16 Jun 2026US 12,657,408 B2NCR Atleos Corporation
- Card issuing device28 Apr 2026US 12,612,282 B2Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Card reader24 Feb 2026US 12,561,543 B2Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Cleaning card with deformable cleaning elements for media transport device16 Dec 2025US 12,496,621 B2KICTeam, Inc.
- Electronic transaction device comprising a mechanism affording protection against the insertion of a non-compliant object into the chip card reader27 May 2025US 12,314,934 B2Banks and Acquirers International Holding
- Card reader26 Mar 2026US 2026/0087276 A1Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Card reader20 Nov 2025US 2025/0356152 A1Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Card reader21 Aug 2025US 2025/0265433 A1Nidec Instruments Corporation
- Card reader foreign object detection8 May 2025US 2025/0148225 A1NCR Atleos Corporation
- Tilting door system with a damping system7 Nov 2024US 2024/0367929 A1
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- Multiple standard smart card reader209US 5,594,233 AAT&T Global Information Solutions Company · 1997
- Smart card reader with liquid diverter system121US 5,892,210 ACoin Acceptors, Inc. · 1999
- Card processing apparatus with liquid drain99US 8,251,293 B2Nidec Sankyo Corporation · 2012
- Entry control device82US 4,171,737 ADocutel Corporation · 1979
- Memory card and receptacle for same81US 6,109,939 ASony Corporation · 2000