G06K 15/407
Managing marking material
Official title: {Managing marking material, e.g. checking available colours}
G06K15/407 (Managing marking material) appears on 234 US grants and 287 published applications in this corpus.
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Recent patents
- Determining printing fluid amounts based on colorant boundaries29 Sep 2026US 12,748,936 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Recording material estimation method, information processing apparatus, and consumable8 Sep 2026US 12,730,404 B2Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium1 Sep 2026US 12,724,573 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Delivery management system, delivery management apparatus, and image forming apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,261 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus for creating image forming condition28 Jul 2026US 12,694,249 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299476 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Automatic media color profile identification1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300662 A1
- Image forming apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288042 A1
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289209 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289210 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods of processing scanned data42US 8,823,991 B2Kofax, Inc. · 2014
- Systems and methods of processing scanned data41US 8,749,839 B2Kofax, Inc. · 2014
- Imaging supply memory33US 9,746,799 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2017
- Communicating a classification of a consumable product33US 9,914,306 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2018
- Logic circuitry29US 10,875,318 B1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. · 2020