B42D 25/00
Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features
Official title: Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof (printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14)
B42D25/00 (Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features) appears on 4,742 US grants and 5,172 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42D- Granted patents
- 4,742
- Published applications
- 5,172
- Assignees
- 1,514
- Inventors
- 6,719
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 14 | 0 |
| 1978 | 20 | 0 |
| 1979 | 16 | 0 |
| 1980 | 18 | 0 |
| 1981 | 18 | 0 |
| 1982 | 16 | 0 |
| 1983 | 11 | 0 |
| 1984 | 27 | 0 |
| 1985 | 36 | 0 |
| 1986 | 36 | 0 |
| 1987 | 38 | 0 |
| 1988 | 28 | 0 |
| 1989 | 27 | 0 |
| 1990 | 36 | 0 |
| 1991 | 36 | 0 |
| 1992 | 45 | 0 |
| 1993 | 36 | 0 |
| 1994 | 42 | 0 |
| 1995 | 48 | 0 |
| 1996 | 47 | 0 |
| 1997 | 50 | 0 |
| 1998 | 83 | 0 |
| 1999 | 60 | 0 |
| 2000 | 86 | 0 |
| 2001 | 71 | 24 |
| 2002 | 63 | 85 |
| 2003 | 68 | 146 |
| 2004 | 88 | 153 |
| 2005 | 66 | 193 |
| 2006 | 96 | 166 |
| 2007 | 83 | 217 |
| 2008 | 96 | 226 |
| 2009 | 80 | 200 |
| 2010 | 156 | 231 |
| 2011 | 154 | 218 |
| 2012 | 164 | 193 |
| 2013 | 168 | 241 |
| 2014 | 176 | 217 |
| 2015 | 177 | 252 |
| 2016 | 177 | 200 |
| 2017 | 187 | 215 |
| 2018 | 186 | 278 |
| 2019 | 262 | 275 |
| 2020 | 254 | 278 |
| 2021 | 238 | 270 |
| 2022 | 191 | 264 |
| 2023 | 170 | 190 |
| 2024 | 190 | 202 |
| 2025 | 212 | 122 |
| 2026 | 86 | 116 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Transfer security element material and value document comprising a security element6 Oct 2026US 12,752,567 B2Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
- Metallic foil card and manufacturing thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,752,568 B2Thales Dis France SAS
- Device for processing documents29 Sep 2026US 12,746,775 B2MB AUTOMATION GmbH & Co. KG
- Optical device and method of manufacture thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,741,478 B2De La Rue International Limited
- Standardization of taggant signatures using transfer images8 Sep 2026US 12,728,662 B2Microtrace, LLC
- Printed documents readily identifying indicia printing defects8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306937 A1Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation
- Compositions, comprising silver nanoplatelets8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307149 A1BASF SE
- Substrate with Varying Saturations of Offset Printing Utilizing Image Movement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307420 A1The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
- Identification element, inquiry apparatus, and inquiry method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307421 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Optical security components, manufacture of such components and secure objects provided with such components8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307422 A1Surys
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for surveying dissemination of proprietary empirical data1,132US 5,862,260 ADigimarc Corporation · 1999
- Computer system linked by using information in data objects1,131US 6,122,403 ADigimarc Corporation · 2000
- Linking of computers based on optical sensing of digital data942US 6,311,214 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2001
- Watermark embedder and reader942US 6,614,914 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2003
- Connected audio and other media objects859US 6,505,160 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2003