G07B 2017/00266
Man-machine interface on the apparatus
Official title: {Man-machine interface on the apparatus}
G07B2017/00266 (Man-machine interface on the apparatus) appears on 190 US grants and 59 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
- 190
- Published applications
- 59
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 286
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Digital stamps12 May 2026US 12,626,213 B2United States Postal Service
- Custom printing of bulk mailing25 Mar 2025US 12,260,366 B2
- Digital stamps12 Nov 2024US 12,141,738 B2United States Postal Service
- Intelligent collection box25 Jun 2024US 12,020,198 B2United States Postal Service
- Goods processing apparatus18 Apr 2023US 11,630,897 B2Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
- Digital stamps24 Apr 2025US 2025/0131367 A1United States Postal Service
- Digital stamps10 Aug 2023US 2023/0252398 A1United States Postal Service
- Custom printing of bulk mailing16 Mar 2023US 2023/0079845 A1
- Digital stamps8 Sep 2022US 2022/0284388 A1United States Postal Service
- Smartphone-controlled mailbox system1 Oct 2020US 2020/0311671 A1Advanced Technology & Research Corp.
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- Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system184US 5,454,038 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1995
- Microcomputerized electronic postage meter system165US 3,978,457 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1976