G06F 3/1227
Printer definition files
Official title: {Printer definition files}
G06F3/1227 (Printer definition files) appears on 82 US grants and 92 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 82
- Published applications
- 92
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 145
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015 | 6 | 8 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11 |
| 2017 | 5 | 6 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9 |
| 2019 | 9 | 7 |
| 2020 | 7 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods and printing system for configurable queue submission26 May 2026US 12,639,017 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium10 Feb 2026US 12,547,357 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Communication management systems and methods for local delivery service12 Aug 2025US 12,388,890 B2Open Text SA ULC
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium for displaying a screen provided by a print setting application8 Apr 2025US 12,271,642 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium for using print driver extensions to convert a format of print data8 Oct 2024US 12,112,084 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310388 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium21 May 2026US 2026/0140680 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Communication management systems and methods for local delivery service6 Nov 2025US 2025/0343829 A1Open Text SA ULC
- Methods and printing system for configurable queue submission28 Aug 2025US 2025/0272029 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium26 Jun 2025US 2025/0208799 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Data structure for printer description file131US 6,426,798 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2002
- Modular and extensible printer device driver and text based method for characterizing printer devices for use therewith76US 6,825,941 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2004
- Printer driver and method for supporting worldwide single binary font format with built in support for double byte characters33US 6,490,051 B1Microsoft Corporation · 2002
- Print system25US 6,633,400 B1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Information processing apparatus, print management apparatus, print management system and method, memory medium storing computer-readable program therein, and print control program12US 7,145,679 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2006