G06K 15/40
Details not directly involved in printing
Official title: {Details not directly involved in printing, e.g. machine management, management of the arrangement as a whole or of its constitutive parts (computer driven print job management G06F3/1237)}
G06K15/40 (Details not directly involved in printing) appears on 1,834 US grants and 2,223 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 1,834
- Published applications
- 2,223
- Assignees
- 211
- Inventors
- 2,932
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 6 |
| 2006 | 1 | 8 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 | 18 |
| 2011 | 2 | 53 |
| 2012 | 8 | 139 |
| 2013 | 58 | 197 |
| 2014 | 157 | 260 |
| 2015 | 269 | 304 |
| 2016 | 244 | 201 |
| 2017 | 202 | 190 |
| 2018 | 168 | 117 |
| 2019 | 152 | 108 |
| 2020 | 98 | 86 |
| 2021 | 91 | 123 |
| 2022 | 110 | 104 |
| 2023 | 110 | 84 |
| 2024 | 72 | 84 |
| 2025 | 44 | 64 |
| 2026 | 34 | 54 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 15/408Handling exceptions339
- G06K 15/4065Managing print media320
- G06K 15/4055Managing power consumption313
- G06K 15/4095Secure printing291
- G06K 15/407Managing marking material234
- G06K 15/4025Managing optional units216
- G06K 15/4005Sharing resources or data with other data processing systems215
- G06K 15/4045Managing the interface to the data source142
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- Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300664 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for automatic resolution reduction83US 5,471,563 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1995
- System and method for dynamic printer timeout65US 5,471,564 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1995
- Printed card to control printer59US 6,772,945 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2004
- Systems and methods of processing scanned data42US 8,823,991 B2Kofax, Inc. · 2014
- Method and system for controlling access to document data using augmented reality marker42US 9,137,232 B2Xerox Corporation · 2015