G07F 11/045
For sheet shaped or pliable articles
Official title: {for sheet shaped or pliable articles}
G07F11/045 (For sheet shaped or pliable articles) appears on 261 US grants and 100 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 261
- Published applications
- 100
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 359
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 0 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
| 1986 | 9 | 0 |
| 1987 | 7 | 0 |
| 1988 | 9 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 11 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 | 1 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11 |
| 2004 | 4 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 9 |
| 2006 | 6 | 3 |
| 2007 | 5 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 6 | 8 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 8 |
| 2026 | 8 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Article accommodation device and article supply device29 Jan 2026US 2026/0030946 A1Bandai Co., Ltd.
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- Card attachment system and method6 Nov 2025US 2025/0340396 A1Fiserv, Inc.
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By later US patents
- Apparatuses and methods for dispensing magnetic cards, integrated circuit cards, and other similar items180US 6,957,746 B2Coinstar, Inc. · 2005
- Electronic coin mechanism and system104US 5,201,396 AK-Jack Engineering Company, Inc. · 1993
- Vending machine for vending one-at-a-time merchandise articles of a plurality of similar such merchandise objects, each of a substantially rectangular parallelopiped shape, such as a newspaper, magazine, or the like101US 4,875,598 A1989
- Automated news rack inventory and alert management system82US 7,529,597 B12009
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