B65H 2301/4213
Of a limited number of articles
Official title: of a limited number of articles, e.g. buffering, forming bundles
B65H2301/4213 (Of a limited number of articles) appears on 855 US grants and 849 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 855
- Published applications
- 849
- Assignees
- 178
- Inventors
- 1,173
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 33 | 35 |
| 2024 | 23 | 19 |
| 2025 | 24 | 20 |
| 2026 | 7 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Stepper re-buncher for stacking media items25 Aug 2026US 12,718,645 B1Cardtronics USA, Inc.
- Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system26 May 2026US 12,637,318 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Post-processing apparatus and image forming system19 May 2026US 12,630,384 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Medium discharge device, post process device, and recording system12 May 2026US 12,623,469 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Feeding device, transporting device, and processing system12 May 2026US 12,623,872 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory recording medium27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252019 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Medium processing apparatus and image forming system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233958 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Bookbinding processing apparatus, and image forming system including bookbinding processing apparatus2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184532 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Medium processing apparatus and image forming system4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152360 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Dynamic buffering apparatus and method for processing documents30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116681 A1Bowe Systec AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sheet handling apparatus134US 5,342,165 ADiebold, Incorporated · 1994
- Sheet processing apparatus and method therefor98US 6,145,825 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 2000
- Sheet post-processing apparatus81US 6,231,039 B1Sindoricoh Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Sheet stacker with aligning/conveying rollers and image forming apparatus using the same60US 6,427,997 B1Konica Corporation · 2002
- Sheet processing apparatus above image forming means and image forming apparatus55US 6,581,922 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003