G07F 7/08
Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate
Official title: by coded identity card or credit card {or other personal identification means (without personal verification means G07F7/02)}
G07F7/08 (Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate) appears on 8,927 US grants and 8,311 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 8,927
- Published applications
- 8,311
- Assignees
- 2,508
- Inventors
- 12,762
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 31 | 0 |
| 1977 | 33 | 0 |
| 1978 | 23 | 0 |
| 1979 | 15 | 0 |
| 1980 | 34 | 0 |
| 1981 | 27 | 0 |
| 1982 | 22 | 0 |
| 1983 | 19 | 0 |
| 1984 | 39 | 0 |
| 1985 | 45 | 0 |
| 1986 | 53 | 0 |
| 1987 | 76 | 0 |
| 1988 | 100 | 0 |
| 1989 | 135 | 0 |
| 1990 | 84 | 0 |
| 1991 | 88 | 0 |
| 1992 | 78 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 108 | 0 |
| 1995 | 130 | 0 |
| 1996 | 128 | 0 |
| 1997 | 136 | 0 |
| 1998 | 215 | 0 |
| 1999 | 224 | 0 |
| 2000 | 262 | 0 |
| 2001 | 232 | 136 |
| 2002 | 199 | 477 |
| 2003 | 216 | 510 |
| 2004 | 268 | 536 |
| 2005 | 212 | 551 |
| 2006 | 316 | 443 |
| 2007 | 308 | 451 |
| 2008 | 302 | 485 |
| 2009 | 334 | 523 |
| 2010 | 360 | 362 |
| 2011 | 366 | 374 |
| 2012 | 340 | 325 |
| 2013 | 355 | 334 |
| 2014 | 324 | 297 |
| 2015 | 273 | 245 |
| 2016 | 218 | 241 |
| 2017 | 224 | 191 |
| 2018 | 202 | 226 |
| 2019 | 262 | 243 |
| 2020 | 272 | 254 |
| 2021 | 258 | 302 |
| 2022 | 222 | 227 |
| 2023 | 219 | 167 |
| 2024 | 191 | 183 |
| 2025 | 160 | 151 |
| 2026 | 86 | 77 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method, device, and computer program product for room layout6 Oct 2026US 12,755,407 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Logical validation of devices against fraud and tampering29 Sep 2026US 12,749,084 B2Block, Inc.
- Multi-function electronic payment card and device system15 Sep 2026US 12,737,748 B2CardWare, Inc.
- Two-level authentication for secure transactions8 Sep 2026US 12,731,151 B2Proxense, LLC
- Game initiation in response to optical machine readable data representation images1 Sep 2026US 12,725,485 B2LNW Gaming, Inc.
- Ammunition vending machine24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290108 A1
- Tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268306 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Techniques for personal identification number management for contactless cards3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260532 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252833 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- System and method enabling mobile near-field communication to update display on a payment card20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245067 A1Capital One Services, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Universal electronic transaction card including receipt storage and system and methods of conducting electronic transactions1,428US 5,590,038 A1996
- Children's credit or debit card system1,251US 5,953,710 A1999
- Tokenless identification system for authorization of electronic transactions and electronic transmissions1,201US 5,613,012 ASmartTouch, Inc. · 1997
- System and method for real time loan approval1,151US 5,870,721 AAffinity Technology Group, Inc. · 1999
- Tamper resistant pin entry apparatus1,151US 7,238,901 B2Nautilus Hyosung Inc. · 2007