B41F 31/18
Inking arrangements or devices: for inking selected parts of printing formes
Official title: for inking selected parts of printing formes
B41F31/18 (Inking arrangements or devices: for inking selected parts of printing formes) appears on 64 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 64
- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 114
- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and system for characterizing a printing plate on a press10 Mar 2026US 12,570,085 B2Advanced Vision Technology (A. V. T.) Ltd.
- Device for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles and machine for generating optically variable image elements23 Sep 2025US 12,420,545 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Cylinder for a sheet-treating and/or sheet-processing machine with suction air openings and machine for treating and/or processing sheet-format substrate comprising such a cylinder12 Aug 2025US 12,384,144 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Inking system with plurality of fountain roller elements27 May 2025US 12,311,652 B2Eastman Kodak Company
- Linear ink dispensing system1 Apr 2025US 12,263,671 B2Bobst Firenze S.R.L.
- Ink cup assembly with non-magnetic force mechanism1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295990 A1Acushnet Company
- Method for calculating the parameters for the pre-inking of a printing unit of an offset printing press with a spot colour15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014792 A1Hubergroup Deutschland GmbH
- Cylinder for a sheet-treating and/or sheet-processing machine with suction air openings and machine for treating and/or processing sheet-format substrate comprising such a cylinder29 May 2025US 2025/0170817 A1Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Device for aligning magnetic or magnetizable particles and machine for generating optically variable image elements29 May 2025US 2025/0170818 A1Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Inking system with pluarlity of fountain roller elements13 Mar 2025US 2025/0083435 A1Eastman Kodak Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-color rotary press49US 4,361,089 AMagna-Graphics Corporation · 1982
- Ink dam for printing press31US 4,165,688 AMagna-Graphics Corporation · 1979
- Doctor-blade assembly for flexographic press26US 5,150,651 A1992
- Separated ink fountain for a flexographic printing machine21US 4,796,528 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 1989
- Ink divider for ink fountain rollers19US 4,559,871 AKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft · 1985