G06F 3/1211
Improving printing performance
Official title: {Improving printing performance}
G06F3/1211 (Improving printing performance) appears on 2,330 US grants and 2,710 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,330
- Published applications
- 2,710
- Assignees
- 296
- Inventors
- 3,752
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 30 | 52 |
| 2026 | 14 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for implementing cloud connected printers and an adaptive printer-based application framework18 Aug 2026US 12,710,903 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Portable terminal apparatus, printing service system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and method28 Jul 2026US 12,693,812 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Portable terminal apparatus, printing service system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and method16 Jun 2026US 12,656,981 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method9 Jun 2026US 12,650,794 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming system and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program26 May 2026US 12,639,016 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing system and non-transitory computer readable medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299844 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299849 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing printing control program, information processing apparatus, and control method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288391 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Industrial printing system, management server, and processing management method capable of processing at the optimal printing quality by using machine learning24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288400 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Cloud printing services17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277494 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distributed printing448US 5,287,194 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Cost metrics348US 5,337,258 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1994
- Printing system wherein one of printer drivers through which print data is sent from a data processor to a printer is selected based on interpreters available on the printer191US 5,228,118 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993
- Wireless communication system, wireless communication device, and control method for establishing a one-to-one relationship186US 7,882,234 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2011
- Multiple print engine with virtual job routing160US 5,859,711 AT/R Systems · 1999