B41F 33/0009
Central control units
Official title: {Central control units}
B41F33/0009 (Central control units) appears on 214 US grants and 204 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
- 214
- Published applications
- 204
- Assignees
- 106
- Inventors
- 508
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 8 |
| 2025 | 8 | 11 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Liftable and rotatable multifunctional thermal transfer printer26 May 2026US 12,636,878 B1Shengzhou Dingda Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for characterizing a printing plate on a press10 Mar 2026US 12,570,085 B2Advanced Vision Technology (A. V. T.) Ltd.
- Magnetic encoder position sensor for remotely adjusting registration or print pressure of a can decorator10 Feb 2026US 12,545,022 B2Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
- Printing cylinder assembly6 Jan 2026US 12,516,998 B2Matthews International Corporation
- Method of printing on workpieces and a workpiece printing system25 Nov 2025US 12,479,226 B1Lego A/S
- Sheet embellishing system and non-transitory storage medium storing machine-readable program30 Apr 2026US 2026/0115758 A1Duplo Corporation
- Cylinder Assembly2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092652 A1Matthews International Corporation
- Sheet embellishing system and method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054953 A1Duplo Corporation
- System and method for mitigating trailing edge voids in flexo printing1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003287 A1Esko-Graphics Imaging GmbH
- Method for operating a printing machine for flexographic printing27 Nov 2025US 2025/0360705 A1Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for controlling the printing of one or more webs of material in a rotary printing press114US 6,167,806 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 2001
- Data input unit and method for printing machines64US 4,639,881 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 1987
- Web press monitoring system50US 5,260,878 AAutomation, Inc. · 1993
- Method and device for controlling the setting of the components of a printing and cutting machine49US 4,847,775 ABobst SA · 1989
- Integrated and computer controlled printing press, inspection rewinder and die cutter system48US 6,112,658 AGeorge Schmitt & Company, Inc. · 2000