G06Q 20/341
Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means
Official title: {Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip}
G06Q20/341 (Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means) appears on 4,700 US grants and 4,574 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06Q- Granted patents
- 4,700
- Published applications
- 4,574
- Assignees
- 1,337
- Inventors
- 6,697
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 125 | 71 |
| 2002 | 116 | 265 |
| 2003 | 129 | 282 |
| 2004 | 140 | 288 |
| 2005 | 132 | 288 |
| 2006 | 182 | 244 |
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| 2010 | 189 | 172 |
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| 2017 | 92 | 132 |
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| 2019 | 137 | 155 |
| 2020 | 153 | 183 |
| 2021 | 172 | 215 |
| 2022 | 151 | 171 |
| 2023 | 152 | 125 |
| 2024 | 161 | 146 |
| 2025 | 112 | 113 |
| 2026 | 82 | 66 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for managing a transaction with a smart card6 Oct 2026US 12,755,270 B2Thales Dis France SAS
- Multiplexing-based validation via a proxy card at a terminal device29 Sep 2026US 12,749,066 B2
- System, devices, and methods for acquiring and verifying online information29 Sep 2026US 12,749,086 B2
- Systems and methods for passwordless login via a contactless card22 Sep 2026US 12,743,690 B2Wells Fargo Bank, N. A.
- Point of sale system transaction processing15 Sep 2026US 12,737,570 B2Block, Inc.
- System, method, and computer-accessible medium for blocking malicious emv transactions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311162 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Tokenizing a primary account number prior to transmission to a terminal8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311167 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Randomized application transaction counter8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311171 A1Visa International Service Association
- Automated device pairing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300952 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Automatically Selecting a Card for Contactless Payment17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278584 A1Visa International Service Association
Most cited
By later US patents
- Universal electronic transaction card including receipt storage and system and methods of conducting electronic transactions1,428US 5,590,038 A1996
- Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions1,201US 5,613,012 ASmartTouch, Inc. · 1997
- Methods for surveying dissemination of proprietary empirical data1,132US 5,862,260 ADigimarc Corporation · 1999
- Computer system linked by using information in data objects1,131US 6,122,403 ADigimarc Corporation · 2000
- Automated transaction system with modular printhead having print authentication feature1,071US 4,864,618 AWright Technologies, L.P. · 1989