G06F 3/1218
Reducing or saving of used resources
Official title: {Reducing or saving of used resources, e.g. avoiding waste of consumables or improving usage of hardware resources}
G06F3/1218 (Reducing or saving of used resources) appears on 2,516 US grants and 3,108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of sending print data8 Sep 2026US 12,730,594 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Delivery management system, delivery management apparatus, and image forming apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,261 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium25 Aug 2026US 12,718,041 B2FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing apparatus that extracts and outputs an operator corresponding to acquired preset information, information processing system, and information processing program18 Aug 2026US 12,710,904 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Throttling notifications to cloud printing service28 Jul 2026US 12,693,816 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- 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
- Printing control system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing printing control program, and printing control method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299845 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Printing systems, print processing apparatuses, and control methods therefor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288383 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image processing apparatus, image processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288385 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming system and control method for image forming system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277509 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Information processing apparatus configured to block inputs from an operation panel when the operation panel is swiveled253US 10,602,007 B2Toshibe Tec Kabushiki Kaisha · 2020
- Data communication apparatus, image server, control method, storage medium, and image system186US 6,628,417 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Providing local printing on a thin client158US 6,201,611 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2001
- System and method for monitoring the state of a plurality of machines connected via a computer network152US 6,430,711 B1Seiko Epson Corporation · 2002