Patents by Inventor David Brian Tratar

David Brian Tratar 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: 8116533
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operator intervention in a document processing system are disclosed. One possible method includes capturing images of documents within a document processing system. The method further includes executing computerized analysis of the images to establish an acceptability determination regarding the images. The method further includes manually reviewing the computer analysis of the images to confirm or override the acceptability determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Kiplinger, George T. Spray, Michael James Spall, Johan P. Bakker, David Brian Tratar, Sammy C. Hutson
  • Patent number: 8098391
    Abstract: An automated document processing system is disclosed. The system includes a magnetic character reader located along a path of travel of a document. The system also includes a first image scanner located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, the first image scanner configured to capture an image of a first side of the document. The system further includes an endorser located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, where the endorser is configured to print an endorsement on at least one side of the document. The system also includes a second image scanner located after the endorser along the path of travel, the second image scanner configured to capture an image of the at least one side of the document endorsed by the endorser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Burroughs Payment Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Kiplinger, David Brian Tratar, Michael A. Saunders, Michael James Spall, Johan P. Bakker, Paul John McCarthy, Gary Benton Copenhaver
  • Publication number: 20090147317
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operator intervention in a document processing system are disclosed. One possible method includes capturing images of documents within a document processing system. The method further includes executing computerized analysis of the images to establish an acceptability determination regarding the images. The method further includes manually reviewing the computer analysis of the images to confirm or override the acceptability determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Michael John Kiplinger, George T. Spray, Michael James Spall, Johan P. Bakker, David Brian Tratar, Sammy C. Huston
  • Publication number: 20090123055
    Abstract: An automated document processing system is disclosed. The system includes a magnetic character reader located along a path of travel of a document. The system also includes a first image scanner located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, the first image scanner configured to capture an image of a first side of the document. The system further includes an endorser located after the magnetic character reader along the path of travel, where the endorser is configured to print an endorsement on at least one side of the document. The system also includes a second image scanner located after the endorser along the path of travel, the second image scanner configured to capture an image of the at least one side of the document endorsed by the endorser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Michael John Kiplinger, David Brian Tratar, Michael A. Saunders, Michael James Spall, Johan P. Bakker, Paul John McCarthy, Gary Benton Copenhaver
  • Patent number: 7249762
    Abstract: A system for feeding and transporting documents includes a feeder stage and a transport stage. The feeder stage includes a feeder and a hopper assembly. The hopper floor carries the document stack, and includes a flag providing a force to move the documents along the hopper floor toward the feeder and to feed a document with a presentation force. A vibration source means vibrate the hopper floor such that the hopper floor vibration is stronger at the far end and weaker at the near end to cause a dynamic weight of the document stack to be reduced through vibration, particularly at the hopper floor far end when the document stack is large so as to reduce variation in the presentation force at the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Johan P. Bakker, J. Michael Spall, David Brian Tratar
  • Patent number: 6695301
    Abstract: A system and method for feeding and transporting documents are provided. The system includes a feeder stage including a hopper, a feeder and a separator. The hopper includes a hopper wall extending toward the feeder with a waterfall step along the hopper wall and with the stack of documents engaging the hopper wall including the waterfall step to form a pocket area over a limited distance extending from the waterfall step along the hopper wall toward the feeder. A photo edge detector located in the pocket area faces the stack of documents such that when a feeding document trailing edge passes the waterfall step, the trailing edge is detected by the photo edge detector while in the pocket area. The system further includes a transport stage downstream of the feeder stage for receiving the fed documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventor: David Brian Tratar