G07F 15/06
Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity: with means
Official title: with means for prepaying basic charges, e.g. rent for meters
G07F15/06 (Coin-freed apparatus with meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity: with means) appears on 13 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 19
- Assignees
- 12
- Inventors
- 25
- Latest grant
- 27 May 2025
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- Parking payment transactions13 Nov 2025US 2025/0349157 A1
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- Virtual code-based transaction system, method and program9 Jun 2022US 2022/0180366 A1SSenStone Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Collecting and communicating temperature and volume data directly from a dispenser25US 7,689,371 B2Flying J, Inc. · 2010
- Collecting and communicating temperature and volume data directly from a dispenser19US 7,181,361 B2Flying J, Inc. · 2007
- Compensating for surface movement of liquid product within one or more liquid product tanks during capture of height and volume data19US 7,197,409 B2Flying J, Inc. · 2007
- Token-operated apparatus for communal prepayment water management5US 6,243,693 B1Merlin Gerin S.A. (Proprietary) Limited · 2001
- System and method for prepay account management system5US 8,095,475 B2Exceleron Software, Inc. · 2012