Patents by Inventor Beth A. Jennings

Beth A. Jennings 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).

  • System and method for using divided fonts to achieve proportional spacing
    Patent number: 7903266
    Abstract: A method of printing a string of characters includes receiving a sequence of character data codes. Each character data code corresponds to a respective character to be printed in the string of characters. The method also includes transcoding the sequence of character data codes to generate a sequence of glyph codes. Each glyph code corresponds to a respective glyph. Each glyph corresponds to at least part of a respective character. At least some of the glyphs correspond to less than a complete character. The method further includes using the sequence of glyph codes to generate print image data and printing an image on the basis of the print image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Arsenault, Beth A. Jennings, Craig J. DeFillippo, Sandra J. Peterson, Christopher D. Smith, William F. Bailey, John A. Hurd, Wesley A. Kirschner, Michael R. Davis
  • System and method for using divided fonts to achieve proportional spacing
    Publication number: 20070257919
    Abstract: A method of printing of printing a string of characters includes receiving a sequence of character data codes. Each character data code corresponds to a respective character to be printed in the string of characters. The method also includes transcoding the sequence of character data codes to generate a sequence of glyph codes. Each glyph code corresponds to a respective glyph. Each glyph corresponds to at least part of a respective character. At least some of the glyphs correspond to less than a complete character. The method further includes using the sequence of glyph codes to generate print image data and printing an image on the basis of the print image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Pitney Bowes Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Arsenault, Beth Jennings, Craig DeFilippo, Sandra Peterson, Christopher Smith, William Bailey, John Hurd, Wesley Kirschner, Michael Davis
  • Method and apparatus for securely printing a postal indicia image having a different dot density in two dimensions thereof
    Patent number: 5611630
    Abstract: A method for printing a postal indicia includes printing a first dot-matrix ink pattern of the postal indicia; and printing a second dot-matrix ink pattern of a portion of the postal indicia in overlapping relationship to the first dot-matrix ink pattern such that a combination of the first and second dot-matrix ink patterns results in a combined dot-matrix pattern of the postal indicia having a first dot density along its length and a second dot density along its height, the first and second dot densities being different from each other but sufficient in combination to permit detection of the combined dot-matrix ink pattern by a facer/canceler machine. An apparatus incorporates the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Donald T. Dolan, Beth A. Jennings, Charles F. Murphy, III, Claude Zeller