G07F 17/246
Provided with vehicle proximity-detectors
Official title: {provided with vehicle proximity-detectors (detecting hidden masses, e.g. metal detectors, G01V, e.g. G01V3/00; proximity switches per se H03K17/00; traffic control systems G08G1/00)}
G07F17/246 (Provided with vehicle proximity-detectors) appears on 149 US grants and 185 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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