B41J 3/36
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for
Official title: for portability {, i.e. hand-held printers or laptop printers (B41J3/4075 takes precedence)}
B41J3/36 (Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for) appears on 1,189 US grants and 1,120 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 1,189
- Published applications
- 1,120
- Assignees
- 237
- Inventors
- 1,468
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2002 | 36 | 24 |
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| 2004 | 32 | 63 |
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| 2022 | 33 | 49 |
| 2023 | 43 | 36 |
| 2024 | 34 | 26 |
| 2025 | 35 | 27 |
| 2026 | 12 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Portable thermal printing device1 Sep 2026US 12,722,400 B2
- Printer11 Aug 2026US 12,703,190 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Printer selectively executing one of plurality of different modes including first and second printing modes11 Aug 2026US 12,703,195 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Tube printer for recording images onto a tube-shaped recording medium28 Jul 2026US 12,691,690 B2Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Printing device, and printing cassette including case that houses input part, output part, and transmission mechanism for transmitting drive force from input part to output part21 Jul 2026US 12,686,217 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Media Application System with a Moveable Platen Assembly for Autonomous Media Replenishment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307404 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Printing system, operation system, printer, and terminal24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285060 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Thermal printer and portable terminal17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273954 A1Seiko Instruments Inc.
- Recording apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211589 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Recording apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211590 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mobile printer with optional battery accessory541US 8,723,904 B2Intermec IP Corp. · 2014
- Printer unit for PC disk drive bay314US 6,270,177 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2001
- Cutaneous administration system273US 6,723,077 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2004
- Portable printer with RFID encoder246US 6,409,401 B1ZIH Corp. · 2002
- Cartridge and printer system for using roll print media233US 4,904,100 AEastman Kodak Company · 1990