B41F 17/36
Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not
Official title: for printing on tablets, pills, or like small articles
B41F17/36 (Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not) appears on 98 US grants and 81 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 98
- Published applications
- 81
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 161
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for applying bar codes to pellet-shaped articles24 Mar 2026US 12,585,898 B2R-V Industries, Inc.
- Capsule marking device and method11 Nov 2025US 12,465,553 B2Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
- Printing apparatus and printing method25 Feb 2025US 12,233,640 B2Shuhou Co., Ltd.
- Three-dimensional object printing system and three-dimensional object printing method15 Oct 2024US 12,115,724 B2Will Bee Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for marking tablet-shaped articles2 Jan 2024US 11,858,282 B2Mars, Incorporated
- Manual topographic gun printing system and use thereof11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160084 A1Bimprinter Srl
- Gripper link with a movable gripper9 Jan 2025US 2025/0011092 A1R. W. Hartnett Company
- Conveyer apparatus for pellet-shaped articles20 Jun 2024US 2024/0198656 A1Ackley Machine Corporation
- Capsule marking device and method15 Feb 2024US 2024/0050318 A1Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
- Production method for printed edible object and production device1 Feb 2024US 2024/0034050 A1Qualicaps Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ink-jet system for marking pellet-shaped articles54US 4,905,589 A1990
- Printer for solid articles50US 5,423,252 AJapan Elanco Company Limited · 1995
- Apparatus for orienting and printing capsules48US 4,632,028 A1986
- Apparatus for conveying and marking pellet-shaped articles45US 4,672,892 A1987
- Method and apparatus for transporting and processing a plurality of articles, and shaped article having serially registered component images42US 6,314,876 B1Ackley Machine Corporation · 2001