B41M 5/50
Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or
Official title: Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording {(printing on organic plastics using a printer's form B41M1/30; printing on pre-treated paper with a printer's form B41M1/36)}
B41M5/50 (Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or) appears on 4,104 US grants and 3,595 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41M- Granted patents
- 4,104
- Published applications
- 3,595
- Assignees
- 921
- Inventors
- 6,096
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 17 | 0 |
| 1985 | 22 | 0 |
| 1986 | 19 | 0 |
| 1987 | 23 | 0 |
| 1988 | 26 | 0 |
| 1989 | 33 | 0 |
| 1990 | 51 | 0 |
| 1991 | 41 | 0 |
| 1992 | 65 | 0 |
| 1993 | 88 | 0 |
| 1994 | 103 | 0 |
| 1995 | 94 | 0 |
| 1996 | 82 | 0 |
| 1997 | 101 | 0 |
| 1998 | 138 | 0 |
| 1999 | 169 | 0 |
| 2000 | 166 | 0 |
| 2001 | 171 | 62 |
| 2002 | 215 | 211 |
| 2003 | 231 | 324 |
| 2004 | 220 | 315 |
| 2005 | 167 | 268 |
| 2006 | 142 | 202 |
| 2007 | 76 | 175 |
| 2008 | 55 | 166 |
| 2009 | 63 | 156 |
| 2010 | 112 | 134 |
| 2011 | 121 | 144 |
| 2012 | 116 | 128 |
| 2013 | 117 | 120 |
| 2014 | 122 | 113 |
| 2015 | 99 | 115 |
| 2016 | 97 | 119 |
| 2017 | 88 | 114 |
| 2018 | 94 | 107 |
| 2019 | 97 | 126 |
| 2020 | 86 | 118 |
| 2021 | 89 | 110 |
| 2022 | 76 | 96 |
| 2023 | 63 | 76 |
| 2024 | 61 | 34 |
| 2025 | 43 | 38 |
| 2026 | 24 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Pretreatment liquid for impermeable base material, ink set, image recording method, image recorded material, and recording medium and method of producing same29 Sep 2026US 12,747,365 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Sheet materials and articles comprising TiO2 and laser marking22 Sep 2026US 12,741,477 B2The Procter & Gamble Company
- Solvent-based inkjet inks15 Sep 2026US 12,735,593 B2Kao Corporation
- Printing sheet and method for producing printing sheet15 Sep 2026US 12,735,601 B2Tbm Co., Ltd.
- Aqueous ink receptive primer compositions and receiving media8 Sep 2026US 12,728,659 B1Eastman Kodak Company
- Method For Producing Transfer Medium And Transfer Recording Method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296084 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet for inkjet printing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296085 A1Lintec Corporation
- Borderless board print product and method of making the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273981 A1FUJIFILM North America Corporation
- Printable Medium, Printed Article, and Related Methods3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258270 A1Flexotronix Limited
- Thermally-Sublimable Metallic Film Material13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233542 A1Chance Line Industrial Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image-receiving element for heat transfer type dye image1,032US 4,987,049 AKonica Corporation · 1991
- Ink jet recording sheet having a bicomponent cationic recording surface162US 4,554,181 AThe Mead Corporation · 1985
- Permanent fixation of dyes to surface-modified inorganic particulate-coated media160US 7,226,647 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2007
- Ablation-transfer imaging/recording159US 5,256,506 AGraphics Technology International Inc. · 1993
- Coated papers159US 5,709,976 AXerox Corporation · 1998