B41J 31/05
Ink ribbons having coatings other than impression-material coatings
B41J31/05 (Ink ribbons having coatings other than impression-material coatings) appears on 68 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 68
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 158
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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| 2022 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators2 Dec 2025US 12,485,690 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Thermal transfer of active ink with dynamic environmental data1 Oct 2024US 12,103,293 B2Temptime Corporation
- Thermal transfer ribbon assembly comprising a metal layer and a protective coating layer1 Oct 2024US 12,103,318 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Coating module for coating a thin layer of ink on a ribbon20 Aug 2024US 12,064,982 B2Armor
- Thermal transfer ribbon, and sticker printing method using same6 Feb 2024US 11,890,883 B2Ds Global
- Protective patch ribbon for thermal transfer printers and method for manufacturing the same13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233544 A1Rtai Inc Co.,Ltd
- Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators28 May 2026US 2026/0145455 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- System and method for preserving inkjet operational status during long periods of printhead inactivity2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303770 A1Xerox Corporation
- Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators20 Mar 2025US 2025/0091373 A1Temptime Corporation
- Ribbon control in indirect thermal printing19 Sep 2024US 2024/0308256 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laminated thermal transfer printable labels39US 5,587,214 AMedia Solutions, Inc. · 1996
- Ink ribbon for thermal transfer printer35US 5,240,781 AFuji Kagakushi Kogyo Co., Ltd. · 1993
- Thermal transfer printing ribbon for printing security bar code symbols32US 5,568,177 AAT&T Global Information Solutions Company · 1996
- Chemically reactive recording medium28US 4,172,605 AUarco Incorporated · 1979
- Method of making laminated thermal transfer printable labels25US 5,738,748 AMedia Solutions, Inc. · 1998