Patents by Inventor Catherine N. Byers

Catherine N. Byers 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).

  • Patent number: 7283754
    Abstract: A method of ordering replacement items used by a reproduction device at least includes: providing coupled to said reproduction device, a replacement item information button; and in response to a user activating said replacement item button, producing via said reproduction device, at least one replacement item information document; wherein said replacement item information comprises specific information needed to facilitate the ordering of the exact replacement items which are used by said reproduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edward P. Imes, Liam S. Cummings, Catherine N. Byers, Timothy S. Claremont
  • Patent number: 6531048
    Abstract: A process including: (a) creating an electrolytic cell composed of a metal surface as a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the metal surface has a plurality of metal fibers connected to the metal surface; and (b) treating electrochemically the metal surface with externally supplied power to the electrolytic cell to sever a number of the metal fibers from the metal surface to result in severed metal fiber fragments unconnected with the metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: William G. Herbert, Catherine N. Byers, Gary J. Maier, Jennifer Hwang, Garry O. Glanzel
  • Patent number: 6495026
    Abstract: A process including: creating a galvanic cell composed of a substrate as an anode, a cathode, and an electrolytic solution, wherein the substrate includes a metal surface having a plurality of metal fibers connected to the metal surface, wherein the cathode is selected to be more noble than the metal surface resulting in the anode being the working electrode, wherein the galvanic cell spontaneously electrochemically treats the metal surface in the absence of power externally supplied to the galvanic cell; and allowing the spontaneous electrochemical treatment of the metal surface to continue for a time sufficient to sever a number of the metal fibers from the metal surface to result in severed metal fiber fragments unconnected with the metal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: William G. Herbert, Catherine N. Byers, Gary J. Maier, Jennifer Hwang, Garry O. Glanzel
  • Patent number: 5821026
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for surface treating a substrate used in a photosensitive imaging member including: (a) impinging a honing composition comprised of particulate material against the substrate surface to create a surface roughness sufficient to substantially suppress formation of a pattern of light and dark interference fringes upon exposure of the photosensitive imaging member, wherein the particulate material is capable of being dissolved by a solvent; and (b) rinsing the substrate surface having the surface roughness with a cleansing composition comprised of the solvent, wherein any particulate material remaining on the substrate surface having the surface roughness is dissolved by the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine N. Byers, Philip G. Perry, William G. Herbert