B41J 3/50
Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other
Official title: Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means {, e.g. printer combined with RFID writer}
B41J3/50 (Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other) appears on 169 US grants and 195 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 169
- Published applications
- 195
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 387
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2022 | 4 | 19 |
| 2023 | 15 | 13 |
| 2024 | 16 | 10 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Printing unit comprising an alignment device, non-impact printing position, and curing device19 May 2026US 12,629,933 B2Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
- Printer, printer control method of printer and non-transitory computer-readable medium20 Jan 2026US 12,528,301 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Sato
- Wristband configuration for receiving an accessory12 Aug 2025US 12,387,075 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Print device, print method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing print program22 Jul 2025US 12,365,188 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Multi-antenna RFID printer22 Jul 2025US 12,367,356 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Print consumable detection13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233538 A1Sanford, L. P.
- Support system and method for a radio frequency identification device (rfid) printer28 May 2026US 2026/0145445 A1The Boeing Company
- Printer, printer control method of printer and non-transitory computer-readable medium30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116086 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Sato
- Selective Application of Graphical Indicators for Radiofrequency Encoding Operations30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116089 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Apparatus and method for radio frequency identification (rfid) coupler19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050758 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for fault tolerant data storage on photographs102US 6,496,654 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2002
- Apparatus for producing an information recording card66US 5,326,179 AToppan Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Apparatus for and method of printing on three-dimensional object41US 6,360,656 B1Minolta Co., Ltd. · 2002
- Form for concealing variable printed information39US 6,481,753 B2Documotion Research, Inc. · 2002
- Automated pattern recognition of imprint technology32US 7,360,851 B1KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation · 2008