G06K 7/0047
For reading/sensing record carriers having edge contacts
Official title: {for reading/sensing record carriers having edge contacts}
G06K7/0047 (For reading/sensing record carriers having edge contacts) appears on 247 US grants and 122 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 247
- Published applications
- 122
- Assignees
- 122
- Inventors
- 387
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
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| 2001 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2005 | 15 | 18 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for connection management in data processing system7 Apr 2026US 12,597,722 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Card edge connector with an improved metal shell16 Dec 2025US 12,500,381 B2Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
- Smart card for performing biometric authentication and method of operating the same2 Dec 2025US 12,488,213 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Card reader part18 Mar 2025US 12,254,372 B2Nidec Sankyo Corporation
- Card-reading circuit, card reader, and card-reading system31 Dec 2024US 12,182,648 B2Pax Computer Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
- Card-reading circuit, card reader, and card-reading system17 Oct 2024US 2024/0346260 A1Pax Computer Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
- Smart card for performing biometric authentication and method of operating the same3 Oct 2024US 2024/0330638 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- System and method for connection management in data processing system11 Jul 2024US 2024/0235078 A9Dell Products L. P.
- System and method for connection management in data processing system25 Apr 2024US 2024/0136743 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Card edge connector with an improved metal shell21 Sep 2023US 2023/0299541 A1Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
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- Computer memory cards using flash EEPROM integrated circuit chips and memory-controller systems424US 5,663,901 ASanDisk Corporation · 1997
- Intelligent credit card system344US 7,360,688 B12008
- Removable media ejection system291US 6,208,044 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2001