Patents by Inventor Z. E. Smith, III

Z. E. Smith, III 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).

  • Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems
    Patent number: 5486686
    Abstract: Machine readable electronic domain definitions of part or all of the electronic domain descriptions of hardcopy documents and/or of part or all of the transforms that are performed to produce and reproduce such hardcopies documents are encoded in codes that are printed on such documents, thereby permitting the electronic domain descriptions of such documents and/or such transforms to be recovered more robustly and reliably when the information carried by such documents is transformed from the hardcopy domain to the electronic domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Zdybel, Jr., Henry W. Sang, Jr., Jan O. Pedersen, Z. E. Smith, III, D. A. Henderson, Jr., David L. Hecht, Dan S. Bloomberg