G06F 3/12
Digital output to print unit
Official title: Digital output to print unit {, e.g. line printer, chain printer}
G06F3/12 (Digital output to print unit) appears on 17,041 US grants and 21,059 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 17,041
- Published applications
- 21,059
- Assignees
- 1,295
- Inventors
- 17,568
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 132 | 370 |
| 2003 | 174 | 449 |
| 2004 | 181 | 504 |
| 2005 | 220 | 573 |
| 2006 | 347 | 663 |
| 2007 | 330 | 701 |
| 2008 | 321 | 761 |
| 2009 | 312 | 833 |
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| 2019 | 1081 | 1174 |
| 2020 | 1032 | 1159 |
| 2021 | 980 | 995 |
| 2022 | 936 | 887 |
| 2023 | 995 | 894 |
| 2024 | 790 | 830 |
| 2025 | 423 | 742 |
| 2026 | 201 | 549 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Print control apparatus, printing system, print control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing print control program6 Oct 2026US 12,754,699 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method6 Oct 2026US 12,754,700 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Method for controlling display processing based on communication protocol6 Oct 2026US 12,757,262 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus that updates a transaction history of electronic data based on printing, information terminal, methods of controlling image forming apparatus and information terminal, storage medium, and image forming29 Sep 2026US 12,748,560 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, printer, control method of information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer- readable storage medium storing program29 Sep 2026US 12,748,561 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310388 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Print setting processing method and non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores print setting processing program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310389 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing system for reducing the amount of power consumption, information processing apparatus for reducing the amount of power consumption, control method for information processing system for reducing the amount of power consumption, and storage medium for reducing the amount of power consumption8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310390 A1
- Image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310391 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Print management system, image forming apparatus, management server, storage medium, and print management method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310392 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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By later US patents
- Mail transmission system with cancel mail sending function665US 6,310,694 B1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Image processing system with ease of operation475US 8,471,914 B2Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Distributed printing448US 5,287,194 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Local area print server for requesting and storing required resource data and forwarding printer status message to selected destination431US 5,220,674 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1993
- Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information collection based on various communication modes for sending messages to users376US 6,581,092 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2003