G06F 3/1238
Secure printing
Official title: {Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs}
G06F3/1238 (Secure printing) appears on 2,178 US grants and 2,805 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 2,178
- Published applications
- 2,805
- Assignees
- 272
- Inventors
- 3,169
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus that updates a transaction history of electronic data based on printing, information terminal, methods of controlling image forming apparatus and information terminal, storage medium, and image forming29 Sep 2026US 12,748,560 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Searching image forming apparatus for workflow execution15 Sep 2026US 12,737,145 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- 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
- 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
- System and method for controlled reprinting within an authenticated session11 Aug 2026US 12,705,002 B2Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310391 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information processing method, information processing device, and information processing system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311846 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- First communication device, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for first communication device, and communication system comprising first communication device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299855 A1
- Printing method, image forming apparatus, and image forming system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288386 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Service providing system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288402 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Network printing system for programming a print job by selecting a job ticket identifier associated with remotely stored predefined document processing control instructions180US 5,619,649 AXerox Corporation · 1997
- Maintaining synchronization of virtual machine image differences across server and host computers98US 9,213,513 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2015
- Obtaining temporary exclusive control of a device95US 7,284,061 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2007
- Print portal system on network94US 7,370,090 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2008
- Method and apparatus for copier request and retrieval of files from multiple computers88US 5,999,708 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1999