G07B 2017/00169
From a franking apparatus
Official title: {from a franking apparatus, e.g. for verifying accounting}
G07B2017/00169 (From a franking apparatus) appears on 137 US grants and 55 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 55
- Assignees
- 28
- Inventors
- 202
- Latest grant
- 15 Nov 2016
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 6 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 5 |
| 2002 | 10 | 8 |
| 2003 | 7 | 9 |
| 2004 | 3 | 7 |
| 2005 | 10 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 7 | 6 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 4 | 5 |
| 2011 | 7 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Guaranteed postage15 Nov 2016US 9,495,809 B2Neopost Technologies
- Method and arrangement for enabling the use of a consumable unit17 Feb 2015US 8,959,590 B2Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
- System and method for controlling postage usage independent of meter balance12 Aug 2014US 8,805,749 B2Stamps.com Inc.
- Process for monitoring the consumptions of franking machines7 Jan 2014US 8,626,885 B2Neopost Industrie
- System and method for providing postage indicia27 Aug 2013US 8,521,653 B2PSI Systems, Inc.
- Generation and management of pre-paid return shipment postage28 Jul 2022US 2022/0237559 A1Quadient Technologies France
- Method and system for franking postal articles and for billing a logistics service8 Apr 2021US 2021/0103904 A1Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
- Method and arrangement for enabling the use of a consumable unit30 Aug 2012US 2012/0222094 A1Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
- Distributed image acquisition for postal processing19 Jul 2012US 2012/0182588 A1
- System and method for controlling postage usage independent of meter balance29 Mar 2012US 2012/0078962 A1Stamps.com Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for purchase and application of postage using personal computer229US 5,319,562 A1994
- Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system184US 5,454,038 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1995
- Method for data input into a service device and arrangement for the implementation of the method166US 7,103,583 B1Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · 2006
- Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream163US 5,612,889 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1997
- Remote postage meter systems having variable user authorization code155US 4,447,890 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1984