G07B 17/00661
Sensing or measuring mailpieces
Official title: {Sensing or measuring mailpieces (weighing G01G19/00)}
G07B17/00661 (Sensing or measuring mailpieces) appears on 695 US grants and 456 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G07B 2017/00709Scanning mailpiecesIndexing code302
- G07B 2017/00701Measuring the weight of mailpiecesIndexing code247
- G07B 2017/00685Measuring the dimensions of mailpiecesIndexing code131
- G07B 2017/00669Sensing the position of mailpiecesIndexing code104
- G07B 2017/00693Measuring the speed of mailpieces inside apparatusIndexing code31
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