B41J 2/04556
Detecting distance to paper
Official title: {detecting distance to paper}
B41J2/04556 (Detecting distance to paper) appears on 119 US grants and 132 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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- Use of sequential firing to compensate for drop misplacement due to curved platen33US 5,043,740 AXerox Corporation · 1991
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