H04N 1/00641
Sorting, reordering or inverting
Official title: {Sorting, reordering or inverting (postal sorting or sorting individual articles B07C)}
H04N1/00641 (Sorting, reordering or inverting) appears on 153 US grants and 122 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 153
- Published applications
- 122
- Assignees
- 42
- Inventors
- 296
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2009 | 4 | 11 |
| 2010 | 5 | 9 |
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| 2012 | 11 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Trading card sorter and methods14 Jan 2025US 12,200,174 B2Lexmark International, Inc.
- Document imaging apparatus with leading edge engagement for improved performance12 Nov 2024US 12,138,662 B2Opex Corporation
- Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and method of controlling image forming apparatus26 Mar 2026US 2026/0089276 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Document Imaging Apparatus with Leading Edge Engagement for Improved Performance23 Jan 2025US 2025/0025919 A1Opex Corporation
- Image forming system5 Dec 2024US 2024/0406323 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Document Imaging System and Method for Imaging Documents3 Oct 2024US 2024/0333851 A1Opex Corporation
- Inspection system, information processing apparatus, and control method for controlling the same18 Jul 2024US 2024/0244148 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Facsimile output job sorting unit and system49US 5,513,013 AXerox Corporation · 1996
- Image forming system with memory duplex printing47US 4,860,119 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1989
- Information transmit/receive apparatus onto which a sorter can be mounted via an adapter45US 5,535,012 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- Automatic facsimile output recipient telephoning system41US 5,295,181 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Image processing apparatus for determining the presence or absence of an image on each side of a plurality of originals prior to producing two-sided copies of the originals to avoid producing any copies with blank sides34US 4,839,740 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1989