Patents by Inventor Jacob B. Horwitz

Jacob B. Horwitz 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).

  • Promotion system including an ic-card memory for obtaining and tracking a plurality of transactions
    Patent number: 6024288
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for tracking individual user consumer transactions which provides the user with an eraseable, re-writeable, visual format display while avoiding retrieval of data from an outside source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Graphic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Gottlich, Jacob B. Horwitz
  • Promotional system with magnetic stripe and visual thermo-reversible print surfaced medium
    Patent number: 5932869
    Abstract: A promotional system is provided which provides a user with human readable and machine readable message responses to transactions in which the responses are formed by a transaction unit and based upon the user's present transaction while taking into account the user transaction history, the responses including calculations based on a set of promotional program rules to form a message response for the user and without the need for the transaction unit to communicate with a central memory or processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Graphic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Gottlich, Jacob B. Horwitz