Patents by Inventor Peter M. Stwertka

Peter M. Stwertka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Tracking an image-recording medium using an identifying mark and film encodement
    Patent number: 7403708
    Abstract: An image-recording medium and methods and apparatuses for providing the image-recording medium are provided. In accordance with the method, the image-recording medium is segmented and at least one identifying mark that identifies each segment of the image-recording medium is provided in an image recording area of the image-recording medium. A tracking encodement is provided that has tracking data that identifies each segment, with each tracking encodement being provided in an area of the image recording medium that does not record images. Information is stored in a database that associates the tracking data in the tracking encodement with the identifying mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Peter M. Stwertka, James F. Greenlaw, Diane M. Carroll-Yacoby
  • Tracking an image-recording medium using a watermark and associated memory
    Patent number: 7349627
    Abstract: A method for tracking a segment of an image-recording medium and an image-recording medium are provided. In a first aspect of the invention what is provided is a method for distributing an image-recording medium. In accordance with the method, an identifying mark is encoded within a recorded image area on the image-recording medium. A tracking memory is associated with the image-recording medium with the tracking memory having information stored therein. The image-recording medium is distributed to users of the image-recording medium and tracking information from the tracking memory is read and stored in a database that associates the users to whom the image-recording medium has been distributed with the identifying mark recorded in the image area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Roger S. Kerr, Timothy J. Tredwell, Christopher L. DuMont, Diane M. Carroll-Yacoby, Paul W. Jones, Peter M. Stwertka
  • Film core article and method for making same
    Patent number: 6824320
    Abstract: A film core article and methods for making the same are provided. The film core article has a generally cylindrical outer surface adapted to receive said length of film, said outer surface further comprising a recess formed in the outer surface and shaped to receive a housing of a circuitry chip of a radio-frequency transponder provided on a flexible substrate that is joined to the outer surface before the core receives the length of film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Roger S. Kerr, Timothy J. Tredwell, Diane M. Carroll-Yacoby, Christopher L. DuMont, Peter M. Stwertka