B41J 3/46
Printing mechanisms combined with apparatus providing a visual indication
B41J3/46 (Printing mechanisms combined with apparatus providing a visual indication) appears on 698 US grants and 714 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 698
- Published applications
- 714
- Assignees
- 154
- Inventors
- 1,114
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 41 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electronic printing system including imaging apparatus and electronic paper, method of operating electronic printing system, and method of fabricating imaging apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,724,314 B2Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
- Information processing apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,227 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printer11 Aug 2026US 12,703,190 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Tape printing apparatus, method for controlling tape printing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program28 Jul 2026US 12,691,692 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing apparatus and control method14 Jul 2026US 12,679,124 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus and control method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307411 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inkjet Printer and Printing System of Inkjet Printer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296000 A1Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
- Printing device, printing system, server, and estimation method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296066 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Medium loading device, feeding device, image reading device, and image forming device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296070 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printer and a method for printing on rolls of web1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296074 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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By later US patents
- Tilting touch screen for printer and printer with tilting touch screen255US 9,463,646 B2TransAct Technologies Incorporated · 2016
- Information processing apparatus configured to block inputs from an operation panel when the operation panel is swiveled253US 10,602,007 B2Toshibe Tec Kabushiki Kaisha · 2020
- Scanning ink jet printer for electronic displays154US 5,980,010 AEastman Kodak Company · 1999
- Variable color display typewriter147US 4,934,852 A1990
- Method of controlling an ink-jet recording apparatus according to recording apparatus in which the method is implemented144US 6,050,669 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000