B41J 11/003
Paper-size detection, i.e. automatic detection of the length and/or width of copy
Official title: {Paper-size detection, i.e. automatic detection of the length and/or width of copy material}
B41J11/003 (Paper-size detection, i.e. automatic detection of the length and/or width of copy) appears on 226 US grants and 243 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 226
- Published applications
- 243
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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