G07F 17/42
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for ticket printing or like apparatus
Official title: for ticket printing or like apparatus {, e.g. apparatus for dispensing of printed paper tickets or payment cards}
G07F17/42 (Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for ticket printing or like apparatus) appears on 1,022 US grants and 1,242 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 471
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 37 | 38 |
| 2024 | 35 | 51 |
| 2025 | 34 | 55 |
| 2026 | 31 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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