B41M 5/38221
Apparatus features
Official title: {Apparatus features}
B41M5/38221 (Apparatus features) appears on 170 US grants and 113 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 170
- Published applications
- 113
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 355
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 10 | 6 |
| 2004 | 4 | 4 |
| 2005 | 6 | 7 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3 |
| 2014 | 8 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 | 7 |
| 2020 | 5 | 5 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 8 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Sling for supporting mugs during sublimation printing10 Jun 2025US 12,325,226 B2Dartronics Inc.
- Activatable and thermally sensitive media elements with light scattering layer27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249635 A1Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Printing apparatus and control method28 Aug 2025US 2025/0269672 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Multi-station dye sublimation apparatus for pre-heating and for facilitating simultaneous sublimation cycles1 May 2025US 2025/0135789 A1Sekisui Kydex, LLC
- Thermal transfer recording medium including base material layer, first ink layer, and second ink layer, printing device, and cassette accommodating thermal transfer recording medium13 Feb 2025US 2025/0050672 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Large area laser printing system and method8 Feb 2024US 2024/0042773 A1Reophotonics, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for controlling a thermal printer apparatus91US 4,621,271 AEastman Kodak Company · 1986
- Laser thermal printer with an automatic material supply87US 5,268,708 AEastman Kodak Company · 1993
- Pulsed laser microfabrication83US 4,752,455 AKMS Fusion, Inc. · 1988
- Thermal dye transfer apparatus using semiconductor diode laser arrays66US 4,804,975 AEastman Kodak Company · 1989
- Method for producing a wood substrate having an image on at least one surface43US 6,964,722 B2Trio Industries Holdings, LLC · 2005