B41J 2/325
By selective transfer of ink from ink carrier
Official title: by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
B41J2/325 (By selective transfer of ink from ink carrier) appears on 1,421 US grants and 1,069 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 1,421
- Published applications
- 1,069
- Assignees
- 306
- Inventors
- 2,033
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 26 | 31 |
| 2004 | 36 | 46 |
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| 2006 | 27 | 39 |
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| 2021 | 50 | 66 |
| 2022 | 35 | 52 |
| 2023 | 44 | 40 |
| 2024 | 48 | 40 |
| 2025 | 37 | 51 |
| 2026 | 25 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optimal alignment of a printhead in a thermal printing apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,741,474 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Personalized identification document processing systems and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,722,399 B2Entrust Corporation
- Portable thermal printing device1 Sep 2026US 12,722,400 B2
- Printer assembly with common module11 Aug 2026US 12,703,189 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Printer4 Aug 2026US 12,697,828 B2Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
- Image processing apparatus, printer, and non-transitory storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307398 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Thermal print head and thermal printer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296050 A1Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Thermal printhead and thermal printer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296053 A1Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Tape cassette including housing, tape roll, ribbon roll, and take-up spool spaced apart from ribbon roll in direction in which axis of ribbon roll extends1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296072 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Thermal printer system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285058 A1Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Media gate for thermal transfer printers411US 9,375,945 B1Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2016
- Image formation on objective bodies147US 5,629,259 ADai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Printing ribbon security apparatus and method146US 9,079,423 B2Datamax-O'Neil Corporation · 2015
- Control system for a color printer126US 4,667,208 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1987
- Composite cassette including a tape cassette and a ribbon cassette126US 5,620,268 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997