G07C 9/00174
Electronically operated locks
Official title: {Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys (mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00)}
G07C9/00174 (Electronically operated locks) appears on 10,239 US grants and 11,649 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07C- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 705 | 647 |
| 2025 | 632 | 540 |
| 2026 | 343 | 409 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G07C 9/00309Operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks4,740
- G07C 2009/00753Operated by active electrical keysIndexing code3,521
- G07C 9/00896Specially adapted for particular uses3,243
- G07C 9/00571Operated by interacting with a central unit2,398
- G07C 9/00182Operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks1,677
- G07C 9/00563Using personal physical data of the operator1,430
- G07C 9/00658Operated by passive electrical keys1,112
- G07C 9/00944Details of construction or manufacture948
All 13 subgroupsShow fewer
- G07C 9/00817Where the code of the lock can be programmed826
- G07C 9/00857Where the code of the data carrier can be programmed774
- G07C 2009/00634Power supply for the lockIndexing code452
- G07C 2009/00968Shape of the data carrierIndexing code394
- G07C 2009/00579Power supply for the keyless data carrierIndexing code217
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