B41M 5/0041
Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper
Official title: {Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper (B41M5/0082 takes precedence; printing on textiles D06P5/00)}
B41M5/0041 (Digital printing on surfaces other than ordinary paper) appears on 1,353 US grants and 1,998 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 1,353
- Published applications
- 1,998
- Assignees
- 713
- Inventors
- 3,356
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 6 |
| 2002 | 10 | 22 |
| 2003 | 14 | 22 |
| 2004 | 23 | 34 |
| 2005 | 18 | 30 |
| 2006 | 13 | 30 |
| 2007 | 16 | 40 |
| 2008 | 10 | 35 |
| 2009 | 7 | 28 |
| 2010 | 16 | 40 |
| 2011 | 18 | 37 |
| 2012 | 21 | 37 |
| 2013 | 30 | 64 |
| 2014 | 39 | 63 |
| 2015 | 47 | 72 |
| 2016 | 68 | 81 |
| 2017 | 67 | 109 |
| 2018 | 58 | 149 |
| 2019 | 100 | 128 |
| 2020 | 113 | 161 |
| 2021 | 116 | 176 |
| 2022 | 102 | 134 |
| 2023 | 104 | 139 |
| 2024 | 100 | 144 |
| 2025 | 102 | 135 |
| 2026 | 79 | 82 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B41M 5/0047By ink-jet printing1,042
- B41M 5/0064On plastics, horn, rubber, or other organic polymers599
- B41M 5/007On glass, ceramic, tiles, concrete, stones, etc225
- B41M 5/0058On metals and oxidised metal surfaces154
- B41M 5/0076On wooden surfaces, leather, linoleum, skin, or flowers121
- B41M 5/0052By thermal printing92
Recent patents
- Inkjet printed door and door components, and methods therefor6 Oct 2026US 12,752,561 B2Masonite Corporation
- UV/LED printing and finishing process6 Oct 2026US 12,752,562 B2NFSC Holdings, LLC
- Method and system for producing a motif on a substrate6 Oct 2026US 12,752,563 B2
- Multiple layered structure and transfer method for applying a design to fabric or cloth6 Oct 2026US 12,752,564 B2Ready, Set, Co., LLC
- Material web with labels of different label variants and method for producing labels of different label variants29 Sep 2026US 12,746,734 B2Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG
- Method of manufacturing treated medium, manufacturing apparatus, and manufacturing system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307413 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus and image formation method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296061 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Method, Apparatus and Device for Printing Images on Substrate Based on AI Vision1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296081 A1Shenzhen Hosonsoft Co., Ltd
- System and device for printing upon textured surfaces of building panels, and methods thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296092 A1Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing a decorative element comprising an engineered stone and a decorative element and a decorative element comprising and engineered stone1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296984 A1Dal-Tile, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of applying nanoparticles381US 6,645,569 B2The Procter & Gamble Company · 2003
- Coating compositions for modifying surfaces330US 7,112,621 B2The Proctor & Gamble Company · 2006
- Method of hydrophilizing materials294US 6,863,933 B2The Procter & Gamble Company · 2005
- Ablation-transfer imaging/recording199US 5,156,938 AGraphics Technology International Inc. · 1992
- Permanent fixation of dyes to surface-modified inorganic particulate-coated media160US 7,226,647 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2007