G03G 15/6582
Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics
Official title: {Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics or its appearance, e.g. stamping, annotation printing, punching}
G03G15/6582 (Special processing for irreversibly adding or changing the sheet copy material characteristics) appears on 1,402 US grants and 1,634 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
- Multifunction peripheral and operation method thereof1 Sep 2026US 12,724,374 B2Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
- Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,715,233 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus and sheet bonding apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,262 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus with fixing via rotary heater and bonding via heater configured to move in thickness direction18 Aug 2026US 12,710,715 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Bookbinding apparatus that creates book by bonding a plurality of sheets using toner11 Aug 2026US 12,704,798 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313055 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299453 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and image forming method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299470 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Fixing device and image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299471 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Fixing device and image forming system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299473 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Metallic color image forming apparatus and metallic color image forming method116US 9,753,390 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2017
- Sheet finisher80US 5,709,376 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1998
- Simulated photographic prints using a reflective coating70US 5,327,201 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Sheet finisher including binding, folding and stacking65US 6,022,011 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 2000
- Auto-gloss selection feature for color image output terminals (IOTs)60US 5,678,133 AXerox Corporation · 1997