G07F 7/0873
Details of the card reader
Official title: {Details of the card reader}
G07F7/0873 (Details of the card reader) appears on 1,498 US grants and 1,729 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,729
- Assignees
- 602
- Inventors
- 2,496
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 66 | 68 |
| 2026 | 36 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Point-of-sale system for portable electronic devices25 Aug 2026US 12,718,217 B2
- Card reader, smart card and method for processing a transaction18 Aug 2026US 12,711,332 B2Mastercard International Incorporated
- Systems and methods for a payment device with cardholder selected transaction preferences18 Aug 2026US 12,711,480 B2Mastercard International Incorporated
- Tapping a contactless card to a computing device to provision a virtual number10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268306 A1Capital One Services, LLC
- Information processing apparatus and information processing method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252833 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for an offline-payment operated machine to accept electronic payments13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236918 A1Payrange Inc.
- Method And System For Presenting Representations Of Payment Accepting Unit Events13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236919 A1Payrange Inc.
- Contactless payment system for mobile computer using an nfc antenna6 Aug 2026US 2026/0228711 A1Datalogic IP Tech S.R.L.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic wallet947US 5,221,838 AMotorola, Inc. · 1993
- Portable information and transaction processing system and method utilizing biometric authorization and digital certificate security873US 6,016,476 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Interior rearview mirror sound processing system873US 6,420,975 B1Donnelly Corporation · 2002
- Wireless telephony for collecting tolls, conducting financial transactions, and authorizing other activities678US 5,991,749 A1999
- Chip card rebate system600US 6,450,407 B1Viztec, Inc. · 2002