B41J 2/2139
Compensation for malfunctioning nozzles creating dot place or dot size errors
Official title: {Compensation for malfunctioning nozzles creating dot place or dot size errors (generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers B41J2/045)}
B41J2/2139 (Compensation for malfunctioning nozzles creating dot place or dot size errors) appears on 596 US grants and 693 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2025 | 28 | 37 |
| 2026 | 19 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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