G07B 2017/00306
Acoustic
Official title: {Acoustic, e.g. voice control or speech prompting}
G07B2017/00306 (Acoustic) appears on 47 US grants and 11 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07B- Granted patents
- 47
- Published applications
- 11
- Assignees
- 9
- Inventors
- 54
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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- Remote postage meter charging system using an advanced microcomputerized postage meter138US 4,097,923 APitney Bowes Inc. · 1978
- Speech recognition control system and method91US 4,605,080 A1986