G07F 9/02
Devices for alarm or indication
Official title: Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus (alarms or warning devices indicating the interruption of flow to be metered G07F15/10)
G07F9/02 (Devices for alarm or indication) appears on 2,263 US grants and 2,695 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,695
- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 63 | 72 |
| 2003 | 79 | 79 |
| 2004 | 38 | 86 |
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| 2006 | 47 | 126 |
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| 2019 | 95 | 142 |
| 2020 | 106 | 141 |
| 2021 | 90 | 134 |
| 2022 | 101 | 111 |
| 2023 | 88 | 90 |
| 2024 | 87 | 112 |
| 2025 | 83 | 100 |
| 2026 | 50 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection15 Sep 2026US 12,733,753 B2Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Inventory information distribution systems, devices and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,725,124 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Personalized and themed transaction interface1 Sep 2026US 12,725,481 B2NCR Voyix Corporation
- Systems and methods for providing expanded cash management functionality via a point-of-sale terminal1 Sep 2026US 12,725,482 B1G4S Retail Solutions (USA) Inc.
- Method and apparatus for managing storage cabinet25 Aug 2026US 12,718,648 B2Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Anti-theft pusher with incremental distance detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305842 A1Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for managing storage cabinet8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311538 A1Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Automated dispenser for garments and other articles and associated methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311539 A1Cintas Corporate Services, Inc.
- Ammunition vending machine24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290108 A1
- Device And Method For Providing External Access To Multi-Drop Bus Peripheral Devices3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260238 A1Payrange Inc.
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- Method and apparatus for a cryptographically assisted commercial network system designed to facilitate buyer-driven conditional purchase offers2,225US 5,794,207 AWalker Asset Management Limited Partnership · 1998
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,270US 5,982,891 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection1,156US 5,910,987 AIntertrust Technologies Corporation · 1999
- Trusted and secure techniques, systems and methods for item delivery and execution944US 6,185,683 B2Intertrust Technologies Corporation · 2001