G07B 17/0008
Communication details outside or between apparatus
Official title: {Communication details outside or between apparatus (coin-freed apparatus for franking per se G07F17/26)}
G07B17/0008 (Communication details outside or between apparatus) appears on 562 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 290
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- 93
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- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Induction unit and label generator3 Feb 2026US 12,541,736 B2United States Postal Service
- Induction unit and label generator30 Jul 2024US 12,051,031 B2United States Postal Service
- Secure on-line ticketing23 Jul 2024US 12,046,080 B2Auctane, LLC
- Systems and methods for providing localized functionality in browser based postage transactions23 Jan 2024US 11,881,058 B1Auctane, LLC
- Goods processing apparatus18 Apr 2023US 11,630,897 B2Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
- Induction unit and label generator27 Mar 2025US 2025/0104000 A1United States Postal Service
- Accommodating priority service users in ieee 802.11be bss9 Nov 2023US 2023/0362997 A1Charter Communications Operating, LLC
- Handwritten postage6 Jul 2023US 2023/0215221 A1
- Generation and management of pre-paid return shipment postage28 Jul 2022US 2022/0237559 A1Quadient Technologies France
- Induction unit and label generator7 Jul 2022US 2022/0215331 A1United States Postal Service
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automated transaction system with modular printhead having print authentication feature1,071US 4,864,618 AWright Technologies, L.P. · 1989
- Token generation process in an open metering system355US 5,781,438 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1998
- System for centralized processing of accounting and payment functions336US 4,713,761 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1987
- Automated transaction system330US 4,802,218 AWright Technologies, L.P. · 1989
- Postage and mailing information applying system318US 4,725,718 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1988