B42C 5/00
Preparing the edges or backs of leaves or signatures for binding
B42C5/00 (Preparing the edges or backs of leaves or signatures for binding) appears on 145 US grants and 159 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42C- Granted patents
- 145
- Published applications
- 159
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 282
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 15 |
| 2005 | 3 | 9 |
| 2006 | 7 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 11 |
| 2008 | 5 | 7 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10 |
| 2011 | 7 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 | 8 |
| 2014 | 1 | 11 |
| 2015 | 10 | 5 |
| 2016 | 7 | 5 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 7 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device for the robotic printing of individually-printed books, and associated method21 Apr 2026US 12,605,958 B2R&D Automation
- Printer and bookbinding assisting tool29 Jul 2025US 12,370,822 B2Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
- Bound collection of leaves featuring region of reduced cumulative leaf thickness11 Mar 2025US 12,246,552 B2
- Device for the robotic printing of individually-printed books, and associated method4 Feb 2025US 12,214,610 B2R&D Automation
- Folding device to make two parallel folds in a leaf of paper or the like19 Nov 2024US 12,145,817 B2Peleman Industries, Naamloze Vennootschap
- Image forming system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285076 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186440 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Bookbinding system and bookbinding apparatus7 May 2026US 2026/0124846 A1Horizon Inc.
- Bound collection of leaves featuring region of reduced cumulative leaf thickness26 Jun 2025US 2025/0206058 A1
- Printer and bookbinding assisting tool19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196524 A1Citizen Systems Japan Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Booklet maker50US 6,099,225 AHewlett-Packard Company · 2000
- Method and apparatus for making booklets28US 6,708,967 B1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2004
- Systems and methods of increasing binding strength of a bound text body18US 6,641,345 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2003
- Bookbinding machine16US 4,484,850 A1984
- Apparatus and method of on demand printing, binding, and trimming a perfect bound book16US 7,014,182 B22006