G07F 7/0672
Special lock-activating tokens, serving as replacement of a payment or of a
Official title: {Special lock-activating tokens, serving as replacement of a payment or of a coin}
G07F7/0672 (Special lock-activating tokens, serving as replacement of a payment or of a) appears on 31 US grants and 20 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 31
- Published applications
- 20
- Assignees
- 13
- Inventors
- 45
- Latest grant
- 14 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Multi-functional shopping cart, system, and method for shopping14 Apr 2026US 12,602,679 B2
- Deposit lock system and method for operating a deposit lock system for a loan object18 Nov 2025US 12,475,757 B2
- Locking medication containers and methods of use thereof1 Oct 2024US 12,106,620 B2
- Method for issuing and returning a loaned item30 Apr 2024US 11,972,479 B2
- Locking medication containers and methods of use thereof16 Nov 2021US 11,176,764 B2
- Multi-functional shopping cart, system, and method for shopping2 Jan 2025US 2025/0005551 A1
- Hybrid locking system for a shopping cart26 Sep 2024US 2024/0318470 A1Just Tec GmbH
- Deposit lock system and method for operating a deposit lock system for a loan object20 Apr 2023US 2023/0123206 A1
- Locking medication containers and methods of use thereof4 Aug 2022US 2022/0245981 A1
- Method for issuing and returning a loaned item16 Sep 2021US 2021/0287280 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Product information system226US 6,820,062 B1Digicomp Research Corporation · 2004
- Product information system for shoppers203US 5,361,871 ADigicomp Research Corporation · 1994
- Cart return loyalty credit system92US 6,486,768 B1Carttronics, LLC · 2002
- Cart management system61US 5,921,373 ASmart Carte, Inc. · 1999
- Cart management system50US 6,125,985 ASmarte Carte, Inc. · 2000