B41F 17/02
Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not
Official title: for printing books or manifolding sets
B41F17/02 (Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not) appears on 107 US grants and 32 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 107
- Published applications
- 32
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 129
- Latest grant
- 23 Sep 2025
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| 2002 | 4 | 3 |
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press23 Sep 2025US 12,420,544 B2manroland Goss web systems GmbH
- Automated method for the production of printed works27 Oct 2020US 10,815,096 B2C. P. Bourg S.A.
- Method for creating designs and raised patterns on the folds, recessed portions, and edge surfaces of objects consisting of sheets1 Sep 2020US 10,759,161 B2
- Automated book creator14 Apr 2020US 10,623,591 B1Hacche Online Limited
- Stack edge image formation14 May 2019US 10,289,874 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Folding apparatus of an offset web-fed printing press and offset web-fed printing press16 Nov 2023US 2023/0364903 A1manroland Goss web systems GmbH
- Automated method for the production of printed works14 Nov 2019US 2019/0344990 A1C. P. Bourg S.A.
- Method for creating designs and raised patterns on the folds, recessed portions, and edge surfaces of objects consisting of sheets19 Feb 2015US 2015/0047524 A1
- Method of, and apparatus for, producing multi-leaf, folded printed products, in particular periodicals and brochures4 Dec 2014US 2014/0353958 A1Hunkeler AG
- Booklet processing unit25 Sep 2014US 2014/0284174 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic bookstore vending machine100US 6,012,890 AInstaBook Corporation · 2000
- Control system for pre-setting and operation of a printing press and collator90US 4,495,582 AHarris Graphics Corporation · 1985
- Apparatus and method for controlling an electronic press to print fixed and variable information84US 5,963,968 AR. R. Donnelley & Sons Company · 1999
- Apparatus for controlling an electronic press to print fixed and variable information78US 6,327,599 B1R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company · 2001
- Process for producing folded, bound printed products, and the printed product produced61US 6,363,851 B1Hunkeler AG · 2002