H04N 1/4473
Destruction
Official title: {Destruction, e.g. shredding of documents}
H04N1/4473 (Destruction) appears on 21 US grants and 30 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 21
- Published applications
- 30
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 44
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and control method23 Jun 2026US 12,665,975 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Printed material management system including system and method for controlling a shredder4 Nov 2025US 12,464,078 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and methods for preserving privacy in private mail4 Nov 2025US 12,464,079 B2HLFIP Holding, Inc.
- Human look-alike electronic filing cabinet and a system thereof1 Jul 2025US 12,347,257 B2
- Printed material management system and shredder17 Jun 2025US 12,335,451 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image reading apparatus18 Jun 2026US 2026/0172513 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Systems and methods for preserving privacy in private mail26 Feb 2026US 2026/0059056 A1HLFIP Holding, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus with in-line scanner and control method thereof15 Jan 2026US 2026/0019523 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and control method24 Apr 2025US 2025/0133176 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image processing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium16 Jan 2025US 2025/0023989 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disposal device for reading, storing information from, and shredding paper documents27US 5,354,001 ARiso Kagaku Corporation · 1994
- Method and apparatus for transmitting verified copy of a document over distances and to substitute for original document20US 5,003,405 A1991
- Data processing method suitable for system including image processing apparatus, system including image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, data erasing method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program10US 7,936,467 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2011
- Method and apparatus for substitute original documents7US 6,038,035 A2000
- Business model algorithm and apparatus for creating and executing original documents at remote locations7US 6,731,411 B12004