G06K 15/4025
Managing optional units
Official title: {Managing optional units, e.g. sorters, document feeders}
G06K15/4025 (Managing optional units) appears on 216 US grants and 257 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 216
- Published applications
- 257
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 422
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 15 |
| 2014 | 12 | 16 |
| 2015 | 19 | 22 |
| 2016 | 17 | 35 |
| 2017 | 29 | 45 |
| 2018 | 33 | 24 |
| 2019 | 28 | 21 |
| 2020 | 22 | 12 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 |
| 2022 | 11 | 16 |
| 2023 | 15 | 11 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8 |
| 2025 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Printing device and display program28 Jul 2026US 12,694,248 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Printing system including a static-control apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium14 Jul 2026US 12,682,193 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming system including booklet creation apparatus9 Jun 2026US 12,649,331 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and conveyance apparatus24 Mar 2026US 12,583,241 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printer for use with attaching device13 May 2025US 12,299,510 B2Sato Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300664 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273983 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for operating an assembly formed of a digital printing machine and a folding machine, assembly of such machines, and production method for changing jobs20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244385 A1Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
- Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and conveyance apparatus2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184091 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus, recording medium, and control method for image forming apparatus8 Jan 2026US 2026/0010748 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of producing an ordered stack of bound pre-printed product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data18US 8,836,990 B1Information Planning & Management Service, Inc. · 2014
- Method of producing an ordered stack of bound product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data17US 8,885,204 B1Information Planning & Management Service, Inc. · 2014
- Method of producing an ordered stack of bound product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data14US 8,970,893 B1Information Planning & Management Service, Inc. · 2015
- Paper feed system and method12US 9,373,065 B1Express Scripts, Inc. · 2016
- Printing apparatus capable of assigning a piece of sheet information to a feed tray4US 8,994,971 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2015