B41M 5/262
Recording or marking of inorganic surfaces or materials
Official title: {recording or marking of inorganic surfaces or materials, e.g. glass, metal, or ceramics (marking of plastic artifacts with inorganic additives B41M5/267)}
B41M5/262 (Recording or marking of inorganic surfaces or materials) appears on 235 US grants and 250 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 235
- Published applications
- 250
- Assignees
- 184
- Inventors
- 573
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2001 | 8 | 7 |
| 2002 | 13 | 12 |
| 2003 | 11 | 12 |
| 2004 | 12 | 9 |
| 2005 | 6 | 9 |
| 2006 | 1 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 | 4 |
| 2008 | 2 | 8 |
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| 2010 | 5 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 | 14 |
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| 2019 | 11 | 8 |
| 2020 | 11 | 11 |
| 2021 | 4 | 11 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 | 12 |
| 2024 | 8 | 7 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Casting system and casting6 Oct 2026US 12,752,565 B2Sintokogio, Ltd.
- High-speed data recording and reading19 May 2026US 12,629,776 B2Ceramic Data Solutions GmbH
- Laser marked articles with machine readable codes31 Mar 2026US 12,589,608 B2The Procter & Gamble Company
- Iodonium salt initiator and processing-free thermally sensitive plate precursor containing thereof, and processing-free thermally sensitive plate and use thereof27 Jan 2026US 12,533,901 B2Lucky Huaguang Graphics Co., Ltd.
- System for marking a coated ophthalmic lens20 Jan 2026US 12,528,262 B2Transitions Optical, Inc.
- Battery, and method for manufacturing battery13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237794 A1Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd.
- High speed laser processes for marking on articles6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225391 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
- Laser marked articles with machine readable codes18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166906 A1The Procter & Gamble Company
- Reflective fabry-pérot (f-p) resonant structures and methods of tunable plasmonic color printing5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036731 A1Purdue Research Foundation
- Engravable heat transfer labels and embellishments30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332861 A1Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semiconductor wafer edge marking561US 6,710,364 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2004
- Method for full format imaging177US 4,267,261 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1981
- Laser marking system147US 5,932,119 ALazare Kaplan International, Inc. · 1999
- Imaged article on polymeric substrate136US 6,203,952 B13M Innovative Properties Company · 2001
- Dynamic laser marking129US 5,653,900 AUnited Distillers PLC · 1997