B41J 31/06
The coatings being directly on the base material, i.e. below impression transfer
Official title: the coatings being directly on the base material, i.e. below impression transfer material; Ink ribbons having base material impregnated with material other than impression material
B41J31/06 (The coatings being directly on the base material, i.e. below impression transfer) appears on 15 US grants and 9 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41J- Granted patents
- 15
- Published applications
- 9
- Assignees
- 11
- Inventors
- 27
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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 of active ink with dynamic environmental data30 Aug 2022US 11,426,974 B2Temptime Corporation
- Thermal transfer recording medium9 Jun 2020US 10,675,901 B2Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
- Transfer sheet19 Jun 2018US 10,000,081 B2Dai Nippon Printing Co.Ltd.
- Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators28 May 2026US 2026/0145455 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Ribbon for use in producing printer activatable indicators20 Mar 2025US 2025/0091373 A1Temptime Corporation
- Thermal transfer of active ink with dynamic environmental data22 Dec 2022US 2022/0402239 A1Temptime Corporation
- Thermal transfer of active ink with dynamic environmental data19 Dec 2019US 2019/0383649 A1Temptime Corporation
- Thermal transfer recording medium16 Aug 2018US 2018/0229523 A1Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Chemically reactive recording medium28US 4,172,605 AUarco Incorporated · 1979
- Apparatus for re-inking a ribbon in a thermal transfer printing system18US 4,253,775 AIBM Corporation · 1981
- Printer ribbon substrates9US 4,016,321 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1977
- Time-temperature indicators activated with thermal transfer printing and methods for their production8US 6,517,239 B1NCR Corporation · 2003
- Thermo-transfer ribbon6US 5,827,617 APelikan Produktions AG · 1998