G06F 3/1228
Printing driverless or using generic drivers
Official title: {Printing driverless or using generic drivers}
G06F3/1228 (Printing driverless or using generic drivers) appears on 501 US grants and 704 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 501
- Published applications
- 704
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 767
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 4 |
| 2002 | 4 | 15 |
| 2003 | 1 | 16 |
| 2004 | 1 | 18 |
| 2005 | 3 | 15 |
| 2006 | 7 | 5 |
| 2007 | 12 | 7 |
| 2008 | 6 | 18 |
| 2009 | 9 | 27 |
| 2010 | 11 | 26 |
| 2011 | 9 | 39 |
| 2012 | 21 | 50 |
| 2013 | 39 | 51 |
| 2014 | 40 | 26 |
| 2015 | 54 | 43 |
| 2016 | 35 | 17 |
| 2017 | 25 | 22 |
| 2018 | 28 | 28 |
| 2019 | 25 | 30 |
| 2020 | 25 | 42 |
| 2021 | 29 | 28 |
| 2022 | 30 | 19 |
| 2023 | 30 | 31 |
| 2024 | 28 | 40 |
| 2025 | 22 | 51 |
| 2026 | 5 | 36 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Information processing apparatus capable of displaying a print setting screen, control method, and storage medium therefor16 Jun 2026US 12,656,983 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method of controlling information processing apparatus, editing intermediate data, and converting edited intermediate data into printing data10 Feb 2026US 12,547,354 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium10 Feb 2026US 12,547,357 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing device setting value for print job on the basis of settings information acquired from external device3 Feb 2026US 12,541,330 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus, control method of the image forming apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium6 Jan 2026US 12,517,686 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299851 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing print control program, information processing apparatus, and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299853 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Non-transitory computer readable storage medium and information processing device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288388 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing printing control program, information processing apparatus, and control method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288389 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing apparatus, control method therefor, printing server system, and printing system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267578 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and system for interfacing with a computer output device288US 5,604,843 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1997
- Data processing system and method for permitting a computer to automatically detect a presence of and establish a communications link with a printer133US 6,493,104 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2002
- Data structure for printer description file131US 6,426,798 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2002
- Printing to a cloud printer via NFC127US 8,189,225 B1Google Inc. · 2012
- Systems and methods for generating visual representations of graphical data and digital document processing118US 7,009,626 B2Picsel Technologies Limited · 2006