B41C 1/05
Heat-generating engraving heads
Official title: Heat-generating engraving heads, e.g. laser beam, electron beam
B41C1/05 (Heat-generating engraving heads) appears on 366 US grants and 485 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41C- Granted patents
- 366
- Published applications
- 485
- Assignees
- 169
- Inventors
- 603
- Latest grant
- 21 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 11 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3 |
| 2002 | 5 | 19 |
| 2003 | 9 | 13 |
| 2004 | 13 | 29 |
| 2005 | 15 | 19 |
| 2006 | 11 | 30 |
| 2007 | 11 | 15 |
| 2008 | 8 | 23 |
| 2009 | 7 | 26 |
| 2010 | 19 | 27 |
| 2011 | 9 | 41 |
| 2012 | 18 | 43 |
| 2013 | 34 | 51 |
| 2014 | 26 | 28 |
| 2015 | 22 | 25 |
| 2016 | 16 | 17 |
| 2017 | 6 | 10 |
| 2018 | 6 | 14 |
| 2019 | 17 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 8 |
| 2021 | 7 | 11 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11 |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 6 |
| 2026 | 0 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method for engraving code patterns in a solid piece's tool surface11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158587 A1Boegli-Gravures S.A.
- Printing intaglio plate and production method thereof, and printing method2 Apr 2026US 2026/0091612 A1Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexographic printing element having an IR ablatable layer and process for making a flexographic printing plate200US 5,262,275 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1993
- Faster laser marker employing acousto-optic deflection115US 5,837,962 A1998
- Laser ablatable photosensitive elements utilized to make flexographic printing plates94US 5,719,009 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1998
- Laser engravable single-layer flexographic printing element80US 5,798,202 AE. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company · 1998
- Method and apparatus for forming gravure cells in a gravure cylinder67US 4,504,354 AGravure Research Institute, Inc. · 1985