B42D 25/30
Identification or security features
Official title: Identification or security features, e.g. for preventing forgery
B42D25/30 (Identification or security features) appears on 3,475 US grants and 4,019 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42D- Granted patents
- 3,475
- Published applications
- 4,019
- Assignees
- 1,171
- Inventors
- 5,169
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 14 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 10 | 0 |
| 1981 | 13 | 0 |
| 1982 | 14 | 0 |
| 1983 | 9 | 0 |
| 1984 | 21 | 0 |
| 1985 | 28 | 0 |
| 1986 | 28 | 0 |
| 1987 | 21 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 16 | 0 |
| 1990 | 19 | 0 |
| 1991 | 25 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
| 1993 | 22 | 0 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 |
| 1995 | 32 | 0 |
| 1996 | 28 | 0 |
| 1997 | 29 | 0 |
| 1998 | 43 | 0 |
| 1999 | 35 | 0 |
| 2000 | 41 | 0 |
| 2001 | 36 | 11 |
| 2002 | 37 | 49 |
| 2003 | 30 | 75 |
| 2004 | 51 | 81 |
| 2005 | 37 | 116 |
| 2006 | 59 | 100 |
| 2007 | 43 | 157 |
| 2008 | 62 | 152 |
| 2009 | 48 | 139 |
| 2010 | 100 | 157 |
| 2011 | 99 | 153 |
| 2012 | 113 | 146 |
| 2013 | 120 | 173 |
| 2014 | 130 | 158 |
| 2015 | 120 | 217 |
| 2016 | 128 | 165 |
| 2017 | 154 | 189 |
| 2018 | 154 | 239 |
| 2019 | 224 | 237 |
| 2020 | 220 | 254 |
| 2021 | 204 | 241 |
| 2022 | 173 | 246 |
| 2023 | 154 | 173 |
| 2024 | 177 | 183 |
| 2025 | 193 | 106 |
| 2026 | 78 | 102 |
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
- 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
- Security item or assembly of the security item and of another object comprising a first and a second raster1 Sep 2026US 12,722,414 B1Oberthur Fiduciaire SAS
- 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
- Encoded inkjet colorshift8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307423 A1Thales Dis France SAS
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
- Watermark embedder and reader942US 6,614,914 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2003
- Watermark enabled video objects735US 6,411,725 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2002
- Methods for controlling systems using control signals embedded in empirical data574US 5,832,119 ADigimarc Corporation · 1998