B41M 3/144
Using fluorescent, luminescent or iridescent effects
Official title: {using fluorescent, luminescent or iridescent effects}
B41M3/144 (Using fluorescent, luminescent or iridescent effects) appears on 375 US grants and 393 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 375
- Published applications
- 393
- Assignees
- 206
- Inventors
- 839
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 8 | 24 |
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| 2006 | 9 | 11 |
| 2007 | 11 | 21 |
| 2008 | 4 | 25 |
| 2009 | 11 | 11 |
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| 2013 | 19 | 14 |
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| 2020 | 16 | 18 |
| 2021 | 13 | 17 |
| 2022 | 11 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 | 14 |
| 2025 | 7 | 11 |
| 2026 | 4 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- 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)
- Photoluminescent security ink for continuous ink-jet printing30 Jun 2026US 12,668,711 B2Sicpa Holding SA
- Printing system of security materials and anti-forgery documents with raised printing and process thereof2 Jun 2026US 12,643,320 B2Sam Security Printing Matbaa Anonim Sirketi
- Security feature, printing ink, document of value, and manufacturing method10 Feb 2026US 12,545,794 B2Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
- Methods of printing document markings with enhanced moiré effects, and documents that exhibit such effects18 Nov 2025US 12,472,765 B1Xerox Corporation
- Security feature24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285075 A1CCL Secure Pty Ltd
- Security devices and methods of manufacture thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241740 A1De La Rue International Limited
- Security marking and verification system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235516 A1Sun Chemical Corporation
- Security element6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225393 A1Fase S.R.L.
- Energy converting particles and methods for their use in security, anticounterfeiting, and anti-tampering end-uses6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225394 A1Immunolight, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Photoluminescent markings with functional overlayers207US 8,097,843 B2Performance Indicator, LLC · 2012
- Quantum dot security device and method189US 6,692,031 B22004