Inventor · Boise, ID, US

James G. Bearss

29Patents
12h-index
28Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 2, 1986 → Jul 30, 2003

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4791438A Balanced capillary ink jet pen for ink jet printing systems Performing Operations; Transporting 81 Expired
US4695853A Thin film vertical resistor devices for a thermal ink jet printhead and methods of manufacture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US5111302A Method and system for enhancing the quality of both color and black and white images produced by ink jet and electrophotographic printers Performing Operations; Transporting 65 Expired
US4930018A Method and system for enhancing the quality of both color and black and white images produced by ink jet printers Physics 51 Expired
US4791165A Ink-jet ink for plain paper printing Chemistry; Metallurgy 37 Expired
US5987221A Encoded orphan pixels for discriminating halftone data from text and line art data Electricity 33 Expired
US5745152A Multiple beam laser scanner using lasers with different aperture sizes Electricity 30 Expired
US7034955B2 Using a processor enhanced memory module to accelerate hardcopy image processing within existing printer controller Physics 30 Expired
US5445911A Chelating positive charge director for liquid electrographic toner Physics 25 Expired
US4675083A Compound bore nozzle for ink jet printhead and method of manufacture Physics 23 Expired
US5136334A Method and apparatus for preparing liquid tone for direct transfer to the media during electrophotographic printing Physics 18 Expired
US5291251A Image development and transfer apparatus which utilized an intermediate transfer film Physics 15 Expired
US7173719B2 Integrated raster image processor and electro-photographic engine controller Physics 12 Expired
US6163662A Image forming devices, fusing assemblies, and methods of forming an image using control circuitry to control fusing operations Physics 11 Expired
US5361089A Method and apparatus for applying an adhesive layer for improved image transfer in electrophotography Physics 11 Expired
US6678426B1 Programmable mapping of lower resolution digital data to a higher resolution for output on a lower resolution device Physics 10 Expired
US5393635A Chelating negative charge director for liquid electrographic toner Physics 9 Expired
US5118265A Liquid pump assembly Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US5867191A Toner projection printer with means to reduce toner spreading Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Expired
US6157793A Image forming devices and sensors configured to monitor media, and methods of forming an image upon media Physics 8 Expired
US5978642A Color printer with shuttle type paper drive and method Physics 6 Expired
US6445404B1 Methods of providing lower resolution format data into a higher resolution format Physics 5 Expired
US5558968A Dendrimeric toner particles for liquid electrophotography Physics 4 Expired
US7236268B2 Adaptive screening in raster image processing of complex pages Physics 4 Expired
US5450189A Electrophotographic imaging with toners of opposite sign electrical charge Physics 4 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.