G06F 3/1261
By using alternate printing
Official title: {by using alternate printing}
G06F3/1261 (By using alternate printing) appears on 380 US grants and 482 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 380
- Published applications
- 482
- Assignees
- 84
- Inventors
- 771
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 | 23 |
| 2003 | 6 | 20 |
| 2004 | 7 | 10 |
| 2005 | 11 | 26 |
| 2006 | 10 | 25 |
| 2007 | 15 | 31 |
| 2008 | 5 | 20 |
| 2009 | 9 | 26 |
| 2010 | 19 | 20 |
| 2011 | 13 | 21 |
| 2012 | 23 | 12 |
| 2013 | 27 | 17 |
| 2014 | 29 | 21 |
| 2015 | 16 | 16 |
| 2016 | 18 | 20 |
| 2017 | 22 | 23 |
| 2018 | 20 | 20 |
| 2019 | 20 | 28 |
| 2020 | 19 | 23 |
| 2021 | 23 | 14 |
| 2022 | 14 | 11 |
| 2023 | 16 | 18 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 |
| 2025 | 2 | 14 |
| 2026 | 7 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Printing system240US 5,625,757 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1997
- Networked printer server229US 6,452,692 B1Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2002
- System for transferring jobs between processing units based upon content of job and ability of unit to perform job128US 6,157,465 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Directing print jobs in a network printing system126US 6,552,813 B2Sun Microsystems, Inc. · 2003
- Printing system for grouping printing apparatuses62US 7,593,123 B2Minolta Co., Ltd. · 2009