G06F 3/1278
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure
Official title: {specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure}
G06F3/1278 (Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure) appears on 13,112 US grants and 16,228 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 13,112
- Published applications
- 16,228
- Assignees
- 971
- Inventors
- 13,870
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 88 | 75 |
| 2002 | 111 | 351 |
| 2003 | 154 | 425 |
| 2004 | 170 | 471 |
| 2005 | 202 | 508 |
| 2006 | 320 | 609 |
| 2007 | 307 | 614 |
| 2008 | 295 | 657 |
| 2009 | 279 | 686 |
| 2010 | 361 | 616 |
| 2011 | 424 | 699 |
| 2012 | 592 | 824 |
| 2013 | 787 | 741 |
| 2014 | 917 | 880 |
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| 2017 | 725 | 712 |
| 2018 | 669 | 767 |
| 2019 | 786 | 857 |
| 2020 | 740 | 810 |
| 2021 | 700 | 673 |
| 2022 | 654 | 643 |
| 2023 | 752 | 665 |
| 2024 | 576 | 544 |
| 2025 | 279 | 467 |
| 2026 | 114 | 318 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 3/1285Remote printer device9,605
- G06F 3/1292Mobile client2,302
- G06F 3/1284Local printer device1,571
- G06F 3/1282High volume printer device617
- G06F 3/1291Pool of printer devices: self-managing printing devices in a network343
- G06F 3/1279Controller construction298
- G06F 3/128Direct printing278
- G06F 3/1281Multi engine printer devices84
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By later US patents
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- Distributed printing448US 5,287,194 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- 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
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