G07F 17/16
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or
Official title: for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or the like
G07F17/16 (Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for devices exhibiting advertisements, announcements, pictures or) appears on 712 US grants and 790 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- 790
- Assignees
- 291
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- Latest grant
- 9 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Digital jukebox device with karaoke and/or photo booth features, and associated methods9 Dec 2025US 12,495,175 B2TouchTunes Music Corporation
- Pedestal on which a terminal providing seat-library pairing service is mounted, seat-library pairing method and system using short-distance wireless communication29 Jul 2025US 12,373,741 B2HYBE Co., Ltd.
- Web enabled audiovisual medication dispensing with enhanced compliance verification8 Jul 2025US 12,356,113 B1Omcare Inc.
- Embedded payment tokens in digital media objects25 Feb 2025US 12,236,474 B2Visa International Service Association
- Interactive kiosk for displaying a code that is imaged by a portable electronic to cause the portable electronic device to perform an operation and method thereof11 Feb 2025US 12,223,487 B2Ike Smart City, LLC
- Systems and methods for implementing a reactive and transactive ecosystem25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179115 A1
- Pedestal on which a terminal providing seat-library pairing service is mounted, seat-library pairing method and system using short-distance wireless communication12 Mar 2026US 2026/0073312 A1HYBE Co., Ltd.
- System and Method for Processing Communal and Public Collections By Utilizing a Publicly Accessible Kiosk12 Mar 2026US 2026/0073373 A1T Pushke Inc
- Remote agent system19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050900 A1SITA Information Networking Computing USA, Inc.
- Digital jukebox device with karaoke and/or photo booth features, and associated methods19 Feb 2026US 2026/0052289 A1TouchTunes Music Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for surveying dissemination of proprietary empirical data1,132US 5,862,260 ADigimarc Corporation · 1999
- Computerized system for making payments and authenticating transactions over the internet1,121US 5,826,241 AFirst Virtual Holdings Incorporated · 1998
- Trusted agents for open electronic commerce1,044US 5,557,518 ACitibank, N. A. · 1996
- Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data981US 5,963,916 AIntouch Group, Inc. · 1999
- Linking of computers based on optical sensing of digital data942US 6,311,214 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2001