B41J 2/4753
Using thermosensitive substrates
Official title: {using thermosensitive substrates, e.g. paper}
B41J2/4753 (Using thermosensitive substrates) appears on 227 US grants and 212 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Techniques for automated marking of dental appliances13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233338 A1Institut Straumann AG
- Drawing apparatus and method of forming drawn object18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166890 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Drawing object and method of forming drawing object17 Jul 2025US 2025/0229560 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Marking apparatus and marking method12 Jun 2025US 2025/0187116 A1Cajo Technologies Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Interleaving thermal printing with discontiguous dye-transfer tracks on an individual multiple-source printhead pass33US 5,808,655 AEastman Kodak Company · 1998
- Thermal transfer image forming method using laser33US 6,027,850 AKonica Corporation · 2000
- Thermoreversible recording medium, apparatus utilizing the same and method for fabricating the same30US 5,249,000 AOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. · 1993
- Method of multi-channel thermal recording29US 5,818,498 ACreo Products Inc. · 1998
- Labeling apparatus and method for disk storage media27US 6,771,297 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2004