G07B 17/00362
Calculation or computing within apparatus
Official title: {Calculation or computing within apparatus, e.g. calculation of postage value}
G07B17/00362 (Calculation or computing within apparatus) appears on 542 US grants and 212 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
- 542
- Published applications
- 212
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 664
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G07B 2017/00395Memory organizationIndexing code182
- G07B 2017/0037Calculation of postage valueIndexing code175
- G07B 2017/00427Special accounting proceduresIndexing code150
- G07B 2017/00379Calculation of different sending options for a mail pieceIndexing code95
- G07B 2017/00419Software organizationIndexing code61
- G07B 2017/00387Currency calculationIndexing code5
Recent patents
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- System and method for Generating Postage6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228744 A1Pitney Bowes Inc.
- Digital stamps24 Apr 2025US 2025/0131367 A1United States Postal Service
- Activatable postage3 Oct 2024US 2024/0331452 A1Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Digital stamps10 Aug 2023US 2023/0252398 A1United States Postal Service
- Handwritten postage6 Jul 2023US 2023/0215221 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for centralized processing of accounting and payment functions336US 4,713,761 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1987
- Table driven graphical user interface320US 5,778,377 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Mail encoding and processing system283US 5,420,403 ACanada Post Corporation · 1995
- System and method for dispensing postage based on telephonic or web milli-transactions266US 6,005,945 APSI Systems, Inc. · 1999
- Interactive kiosk for selecting and sending mail pieces243US 5,737,729 A1998