G06F 3/1229
Printer resources management or printer maintenance
Official title: {Printer resources management or printer maintenance, e.g. device status, power levels}
G06F3/1229 (Printer resources management or printer maintenance) appears on 4,048 US grants and 5,042 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,048
- Published applications
- 5,042
- Assignees
- 350
- Inventors
- 5,725
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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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 that resricts update of predetermined firmware before completing setup for activating a subscription service, image forming apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and software update method22 Sep 2026US 12,743,264 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Utilization of a printhead resistance sensor and a model to determine a printer status15 Sep 2026US 12,737,144 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium15 Sep 2026US 12,737,146 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing apparatus capable of BLE communication, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor8 Sep 2026US 12,730,593 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- 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
- Image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310391 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method and a multi-lane printer for printing on print media1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296068 A1
- Printing method based on consumable management, printing system, and printing device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299846 A1Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Cost metrics348US 5,337,258 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1994
- Multiple printer status information indication334US 5,727,135 ALexmark International, Inc. · 1998
- Printer/client network with centrally updated printer drivers and printer status monitoring312US 5,580,177 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1996
- Management system for devices connecting with network277US 7,047,088 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2006