B41N 3/08
Damping
Official title: Damping; Neutralising or similar differentiation treatments for lithographic printing formes; {Gumming or finishing solutions, fountain solutions, correction or deletion fluids, or on-press development (treatment of materials containing silver salts G03F7/063; developers per se for processing photosensitive materials G03F7/32)}
B41N3/08 (Damping) appears on 289 US grants and 182 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41N- Granted patents
- 289
- Published applications
- 182
- Assignees
- 107
- Inventors
- 541
- Latest grant
- 5 Dec 2023
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 9 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 7 | 5 |
| 2003 | 8 | 17 |
| 2004 | 6 | 12 |
| 2005 | 8 | 16 |
| 2006 | 10 | 8 |
| 2007 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 6 | 6 |
| 2009 | 3 | 13 |
| 2010 | 6 | 5 |
| 2011 | 4 | 8 |
| 2012 | 4 | 10 |
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| 2018 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 | 16 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 | 4 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Selective wetting of a roller2 May 2023US 11,638,927 B2HP Indigo B. V.
- Method for making lithographic printing plates25 Apr 2023US 11,633,948 B2Eastman Kodak Company
- Fountain solution thickness measurement using optical properties of solidified fountain solution in a lithography printing system25 Oct 2022US 11,479,034 B2Xerox Corporation
- Digital offset lithography ink composition13 Sep 2022US 11,440,311 B2Xerox Corporation
- On-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor and method of preparing printing plate9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194812 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Lithographic printing plate precursor and method of preparing lithographic printing plate11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158809 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- On-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor, method of preparing lithographic printing plate, lithographic printing method, and compound4 Sep 2025US 2025/0278019 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Press development type lithographic printing plate precursor, method of preparing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing method7 Aug 2025US 2025/0249677 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method and Apparatus for Processing a Lithographic Printing Plate Precursor19 Jun 2025US 2025/0199411 A1Eco3 BV
Most cited
By later US patents
- Substitutive additives for isopropyl alcohol in fountain solution for lithographic offset printing40US 4,278,467 AGraphic Arts Technical Foundation · 1981
- Erasable printing plate having a smooth pore free ceramic or glass surface39US 6,125,756 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 2000
- Lithographic fountain solutions38US 4,854,969 ASun Chemical Corporation · 1989
- Photosensitive printing plate36US 5,807,659 AFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Concentrated dampening water composition for lithographic printing32US 5,221,330 AFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. · 1993