B41M 3/14
Security printing
Official title: Security printing {(securities B42D25/29)}
B41M3/14 (Security printing) appears on 1,698 US grants and 1,638 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 1,698
- Published applications
- 1,638
- Assignees
- 657
- Inventors
- 2,889
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2021 | 58 | 78 |
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| 2023 | 39 | 52 |
| 2024 | 56 | 54 |
| 2025 | 47 | 36 |
| 2026 | 23 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device for processing documents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,775 B2MB AUTOMATION GmbH & Co. KG
- Luminescent ink and ceramic product with a label printed with luminescent ink22 Sep 2026US 12,742,087 B2AsociacióN De InvestigacióN De Las Industrias Ceramicas (Aice)
- Anti-counterfeit ink composition, anti-counterfeit ink, and anti-counterfeit printed product1 Sep 2026US 12,723,165 B2Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
- Printed security feature11 Aug 2026US 12,703,196 B2CCL Secure Pty Ltd
- Photoluminescent security ink for continuous ink-jet printing30 Jun 2026US 12,668,711 B2Sicpa Holding SA
- Printed documents readily identifying indicia printing defects8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306937 A1Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation
- Substrate with Varying Saturations of Offset Printing Utilizing Image Movement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307420 A1The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
- Security feature24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285075 A1CCL Secure Pty Ltd
- Security thread with a magnetic element24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285078 A1Magnetic Id Ltd
- Security inks and machine readable security features24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286154 A1Sicpa Holding SA
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for electronically printing plural-color tamper-resistant documents338US 5,291,243 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Negotiable document having enhanced security for deterring fraud by use of a thermochromatic fingerprint image246US 6,030,000 ADiamond Security, Inc. · 2000
- Low visibility watermark using time decay fluorescence240US 6,718,046 B2Digimarc Corporation · 2004
- Photoluminescent markings with functional overlayers216US 8,247,761 B1Performance Indicator, LLC · 2012
- Apparatus and methods for authentication using partially fluorescent graphic images and OCR characters210US 6,373,965 B1Angstrom Technologies, Inc. · 2002