G06K 15/12
By photographic printing
Official title: by photographic printing {, e.g. by laser printers}
G06K15/12 (By photographic printing) appears on 2,436 US grants and 914 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 2,436
- Published applications
- 914
- Assignees
- 359
- Inventors
- 3,413
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 17 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 23 | 0 |
| 1982 | 28 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 73 | 27 |
| 2002 | 63 | 50 |
| 2003 | 50 | 57 |
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| 2005 | 41 | 71 |
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| 2019 | 38 | 25 |
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| 2022 | 30 | 26 |
| 2023 | 25 | 29 |
| 2024 | 21 | 18 |
| 2025 | 12 | 18 |
| 2026 | 8 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 15/1204Involving the fast moving of an optical beam in the main scanning913
- G06K 15/1238Simultaneously exposing more than one point751
- G06K 15/129Colour printing284
- G06K 15/128Generating or processing printable items255
- G06K 15/1295Using a particular photoreceptive medium113
- G06K 15/1228Involving the fast moving of a light beam in two directions54
- G06K 15/1233Using a cathode-ray tube or an optical-fibre tube48
- G06K 15/1276Adding two or more images48
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Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,734,829 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus with cooling configuration8 Sep 2026US 12,730,409 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus performing halftone processing shifting scan line start position in main-scan direction when scan lines are shifted in sub-scan direction relative to target21 Jul 2026US 12,689,697 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus that can perform light amount calibration to adjust the density of a half tone image30 Jun 2026US 12,669,764 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image forming apparatus having optical scanning unit with wire harness and connector31 Mar 2026US 12,591,186 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing printing control program24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289207 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image forming apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277144 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheetside post-processing mechanism10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268106 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing increase of number of ports of control portion and suppressing increase of number of types of substrates27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252009 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image forming apparatus6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227733 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spatial light modulator and method846US 5,061,049 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1991
- Spatial light modulator and method555US 5,096,279 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1992
- Linear spatial light modulator and printer423US 4,596,992 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1986
- Support post architecture for micromechanical devices340US 6,447,126 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2002
- Support post architecture for micromechanical devices283US 5,650,881 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997