B41M 5/124
Duplicating or marking methods: using pressure to make a masked colour visible
Official title: using pressure to make a masked colour visible, e.g. to make a coloured support visible, to create an opaque or transparent pattern, or to form colour by uniting colour-forming components
B41M5/124 (Duplicating or marking methods: using pressure to make a masked colour visible) appears on 1,337 US grants and 141 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Multi-layered revealable substrates and methods of producing and using said multi-layered substrates5 May 2026US 12,617,224 B2Virtual Graphics, LLC
- Crosstalk reduction of microcapsule imaging system7 Apr 2026US 12,596,302 B2Polaroid IP B. V.
- Activatable print medium23 Sep 2025US 12,422,418 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Scratch pad and ink6 May 2025US 12,293,681 B2Plus Brand Industries Inc.
- Primers with improved reflective and thermally insulative properties for microcapsule imaging system28 Jan 2025US 12,210,282 B2Polaroid IP B. V.
- Multi-layered revealable substrates and methods of producing and using said multi-layered substrates20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241737 A1Virtual Graphics, LLC
- Improved scratch pad and ink24 Jul 2025US 2025/0239186 A1Plus Brand Industries Inc.
- Fish imprint kit20 Jun 2024US 2024/0198708 A1PaperFin LLC
- Crosstalk reduction of microcapsule imaging system6 Jun 2024US 2024/0184198 A1Polaroid IP B. V.
- Multi-layered revealable substrates and methods of producing and using said multi-layered substrates9 May 2024US 2024/0149601 A1Virtual Graphics, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Biocatalytic process for preparing phenolic resins using peroxidase or oxidase enzyme129US 4,900,671 AThe Mead Corporation · 1990
- Process of microencapsulation and products thereof124US 4,211,668 AThalatta, Inc. · 1980
- Microencapsulation process114US 4,273,672 AChampion International Corporation · 1981
- Microcapsules with a defined opening temperature, a process for their production and their use109US 4,402,856 ABayer Aktiengesellschaft · 1983
- Benzotriazole UV absorbers having enhanced durability107US 6,166,218 ACiba Specialty Chemicals Corporation · 2000