G06K 15/1817
Buffers
Official title: {Buffers}
G06K15/1817 (Buffers) appears on 371 US grants and 413 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 371
- Published applications
- 413
- Assignees
- 81
- Inventors
- 501
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3 |
| 2002 | 7 | 17 |
| 2003 | 8 | 21 |
| 2004 | 7 | 42 |
| 2005 | 18 | 43 |
| 2006 | 25 | 22 |
| 2007 | 45 | 25 |
| 2008 | 27 | 31 |
| 2009 | 7 | 16 |
| 2010 | 20 | 14 |
| 2011 | 28 | 8 |
| 2012 | 11 | 17 |
| 2013 | 12 | 26 |
| 2014 | 23 | 15 |
| 2015 | 19 | 17 |
| 2016 | 11 | 22 |
| 2017 | 23 | 13 |
| 2018 | 15 | 20 |
| 2019 | 12 | 10 |
| 2020 | 18 | 8 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Page picking with print data3 Feb 2026US 12,539,707 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Methods and systems for operating a printing apparatus16 Dec 2025US 12,499,340 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Reordered multibit halftone processing with a threshold array27 Aug 2024US 12,075,016 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Methods and systems for operating a printing apparatus6 Aug 2024US 12,056,546 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium9 Jul 2024US 12,030,307 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Methods and systems for operating a printing apparatus19 Mar 2026US 2026/0080197 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Image processing mechanism16 Oct 2025US 2025/0322195 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Printing system, method, and storage medium storing program27 Mar 2025US 2025/0103838 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Methods and systems for operating a printing apparatus17 Oct 2024US 2024/0346273 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Image processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and method for controlling image processing apparatus8 Aug 2024US 2024/0265222 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Printer for printing a plurality of print data pieces in a predetermined order141US 6,327,044 B1Seiko Epson Corporation · 2001
- Printer, printing system, print control method, storage medium used to store print control program for controlling a printer, and transmission device for transmitting print control program for controlling a printer105US 6,633,395 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Method and apparatus for providing a printer having internal queue job management102US 5,873,659 A1999
- Obtaining temporary exclusive control of a printing device69US 7,454,796 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2008
- Print system and handy phone51US 6,701,845 B2Nikon Corporation, Nikon Technologies Inc. · 2004