B41J 2/04551
Using several operating modes
Official title: {using several operating modes}
B41J2/04551 (Using several operating modes) appears on 564 US grants and 600 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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