G07B 17/00508
Printing or attaching on mailpieces
Official title: {Printing or attaching on mailpieces (printing mechanisms B41J; security printing B41M3/14; marking methods B41M5/00; inks C09D11/00; record carriers with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00)}
G07B17/00508 (Printing or attaching on mailpieces) appears on 1,139 US grants and 601 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 601
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2024 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Automated greeting card conveyance system3 Jun 2025US 12,319,084 B2Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Activatable postage3 Jun 2025US 12,322,215 B2Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Data Stream Enabled Return Mail Services27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253454 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Digital stamps24 Apr 2025US 2025/0131367 A1United States Postal Service
- Induction unit and label generator27 Mar 2025US 2025/0104000 A1United States Postal Service
- Module for Determining a Shipping Option31 Oct 2024US 2024/0362575 A1Deutsche Post AG
- Shipping mailer with communication link for activation24 Oct 2024US 2024/0354693 A13M Innovative Properties Company
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
- Automated transaction system330US 4,802,218 AWright Technologies, L.P. · 1989
- Postage and mailing information applying system318US 4,725,718 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1988
- Unsecured postage applying system311US 4,831,555 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1989
- Mail encoding and processing system283US 5,420,403 ACanada Post Corporation · 1995