G07B 17/00435
Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus
Official title: {Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor}
G07B17/00435 (Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus) appears on 379 US grants and 338 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
- 379
- Published applications
- 338
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
- 543
- Latest grant
- 3 Jun 2025
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| 2005 | 28 | 39 |
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| 2008 | 11 | 16 |
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| 2012 | 17 | 12 |
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| 2017 | 3 | 2 |
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| 2019 | 3 | 9 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Activatable postage3 Jun 2025US 12,322,215 B2Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Custom printing of bulk mailing25 Mar 2025US 12,260,366 B2
- Method for concealing sensitive mail return addresses24 Sep 2024US 12,100,246 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Secure on-line ticketing23 Jul 2024US 12,046,080 B2Auctane, LLC
- Activatable postage16 Jul 2024US 12,039,809 B2Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Activatable postage3 Oct 2024US 2024/0331452 A1Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Handwritten postage6 Jul 2023US 2023/0215221 A1
- Method for concealing sensitive mail return addresses30 Mar 2023US 2023/0094317 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Custom printing of bulk mailing16 Mar 2023US 2023/0079845 A1
- Hardware server and technical method to optimize bulk printing of physical items28 Oct 2021US 2021/0336840 A1Accuzip, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Delivery point validation system468US 8,117,462 B2United States Postal Service · 2012
- System for centralized processing of accounting and payment functions336US 4,713,761 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1987
- Postage payment system with security for sensitive mailer data and enhanced carrier data functionality271US 5,586,036 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1996
- System and method for dispensing postage based on telephonic or web milli-transactions266US 6,005,945 APSI Systems, Inc. · 1999
- System for dispensing, verifying and tracking postage and other information on mailpieces246US 5,917,925 A1999