G06K 1/121
By printing code marks
Official title: {by printing code marks (applying code marks to labels B65C9/46; marking or coding completed packages B65B61/26)}
G06K1/121 (By printing code marks) appears on 1,442 US grants and 1,235 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 1,442
- Published applications
- 1,235
- Assignees
- 425
- Inventors
- 1,491
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 36 | 28 |
| 2025 | 22 | 13 |
| 2026 | 17 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for validating interactions6 Oct 2026US 12,755,267 B2Capital One Services, LLC
- Systems and methods for printing lottery tickets containing ‘smart’ QR codes22 Sep 2026US 12,743,591 B2DataSurge, LLC
- Variable edge document encoding for secure document storage and retrieval15 Sep 2026US 12,737,568 B2Xerox Corporation
- Counterfeit detection and provenance with grating interferometry, blockchain, and smart contracts8 Sep 2026US 12,730,986 B2Board of Supervisors of Lousiana of Lousiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
- System and method for using QR codes printed by a mobile printing robot in a construction site4 Aug 2026US 12,699,860 B1Dusty Robotics, Inc.
- Label management system, label management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311126 A1Osaka Sealing Printing Co., Ltd.
- Container with mark or markings for tracking and tracing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296707 A1Ball Corporation
- Anti-counterfeit systems and methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273988 A1Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited
- Systems and methods for printing lottery tickets containing 'smart' qr codes27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252827 A1DataSurge, LLC
- Print data interception and processing system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244378 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Bar code dataform scanning and labeling apparatus and method558US 5,602,377 AMetanetics Corporation · 1997
- System and method for detecting barcode printing errors425US 9,230,140 B1Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2016
- Methods and means for embedding machine readable digital data in halftone images304US 5,315,098 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Document having an encoded data structure288US 7,234,645 B2Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2007
- Wide format pagewidth inkjet printer287US 6,672,706 B2Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2004