Patents by Inventor James M. Canter

James M. Canter 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: 11931312
    Abstract: A therapy system includes a patient support apparatus and a pneumatic therapy device that is coupleable to the patient support apparatus. The therapy device may receive power and air flow from the patient support apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Benz, John G. Byers, Scott M. Corbin, Richard H. Heimbrock, Michael A. Knecht, Bradley T. Smith, Lori Ann Zapfe, Robert M. Zerhusen, Kenneth L. Lilly, Jonathan D. Turner, James L. Walke, Joseph T. Canter, Richard J. Schuman, Sr., John V. Harmeyer
  • Publication number: 20240046731
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Patent number: 11830294
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Patent number: 11804092
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Patent number: 11775696
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems are disclosed herein to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering without human interaction or oversight. In the disclosed embodiments, tampering is detected and tamper evidence is provided by incorporating at least one tamper-evident assembly and at least one processing device within an enclosure. The tamper-evident assembly includes a tamper-evident fastener having an integrated circuit (IC) chip, which is embedded within the tamper-evident fastener and configured to transmit a data signal through the tamper-evident fastener to the at least one processing device when the tamper-evident fastener is coupled to a surface of the enclosure to secure a point of entry on the enclosure. In some embodiments, the at least one processing device is configured to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering when the data signal transmitted from the IC chip is not received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Viktor Partyshev, David Orr
  • Publication number: 20230289050
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various embodiments of electronic devices, electronic voting systems and methods of voting that enable paper documents to be displayed “under glass” for user review. In the embodiments disclosed herein, a paper viewing area is provided within an electronic device or electronic voting system for temporarily displaying a paper document to a user behind a transparent surface, which prevents the user from touching the paper document. In some embodiments, the transparent surface may be a touch screen and/or a display device of the electronic device or electronic voting system, and the paper document may be disposed behind and viewable through the touch screen and/or the display device when the paper document is displayed within the paper viewing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Drew E. Tinney, James M. Canter, Jennifer S. Moreci
  • Publication number: 20230196861
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed herein to transfer a printed election sheet from a printer to a scanner, which is separate and distinct from the printer, without human intervention. More specifically, the present disclosure provides a retrofit automatic document feeder (ADF), which may be “retrofit” or adaptively coupled between a printer and a scanner for automatically transferring a printed election sheet output from the printer to the scanner, where it is scanned to generate a scanned image of the printed election sheet. Unlike conventional ADFs incorporated within printers, scanners and multi-function printers, the retrofit ADF disclosed herein is coupled to receive a printed election sheet output from an output port of the printer, advance the printed election sheet away from the output port of printer and automatically transfer the printed election sheet to an input port of the scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Viktor Partyshev
  • Patent number: 11651643
    Abstract: An electronic voting system that includes transportable voting equipment is described. Such transportable voting equipment includes a carrier that may be transportable and easily moved to enable curbside/mobile voting. The carrier may be ergonomically shaped for usage by passing through a vehicle window and resting in a voter's lap. In one embodiment, the carrier may include a printer to produce a printed vote record. The electronic voting system may include the use of a base station (for example located inside a polling building), the curbside/mobile carrier, and a smart panel that is dockable and removable to/from both the base station and the curbside/mobile carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Tinney, James M. Canter, Denton L. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20230130043
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems are disclosed herein to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering without human interaction or oversight. In the disclosed embodiments, tampering is detected and tamper evidence is provided by incorporating at least one tamper-evident assembly and at least one processing device within an enclosure. The tamper-evident assembly includes a tamper-evident fastener having an integrated circuit (IC) chip, which is embedded within the tamper-evident fastener and configured to transmit a data signal through the tamper-evident fastener to the at least one processing device when the tamper-evident fastener is coupled to a surface of the enclosure to secure a point of entry on the enclosure. In some embodiments, the at least one processing device is configured to detect tampering and/or provide evidence of tampering when the data signal transmitted from the IC chip is not received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Viktor Partyshev, David Orr
  • Publication number: 20230127682
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed to detect tampering and/or provide cryptographic evidence of tampering. Tampering is detected and tamper evidence is provided by incorporating at least one tamper-evident assembly and at least one processing device within an enclosure housing a host device. The tamper-evident assembly includes one or more tamper-evident fasteners, each having an identification chip, which stores a unique identifier corresponding to the tamper-evident fastener and transmits the unique identifier through the tamper-evident fastener to the at least one processing device when the tamper-evident fastener is coupled to a surface of the enclosure to secure a point of entry on the enclosure. The processing device may detect tampering and/or provide cryptographic evidence of tampering when a hash of the unique identifier(s) detected when the host device is in use does not match a hash of the unique identifier(s) detected before the host device is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Viktor Partyshev, David Orr
  • Patent number: 11450166
    Abstract: A portable electronic voting machine is provided. The portable electronic voting machine comprises a smart panel configured to display voting process information; and a base station configured to house the smart panel. The electronic voting machine is configured to have the smart panel be removable from the base station and store voting information selected while the smart panel is removed from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hart Intercivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Philip J. Nathan, Edward Patrick Perez, Denton L. Simpson, Drew Eldridge Tinney
  • Publication number: 20220237978
    Abstract: An electronic voting system that includes transportable voting equipment is described. Such transportable voting equipment includes a carrier that may be transportable and easily moved to enable curbside/mobile voting. The carrier may be ergonomically shaped for usage by passing through a vehicle window and resting in a voter's lap. In one embodiment, the carrier may include a printer to produce a printed vote record. The electronic voting system may include the use of a base station (for example located inside a polling building), the curbside/mobile carrier, and a smart panel that is dockable and removable to/from both the base station and the curbside/mobile carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Drew E. Tinney, James M. Canter, Denton L. Simpson
  • Patent number: 11335152
    Abstract: An electronic voting system that includes transportable voting equipment is described. Such transportable voting equipment includes a carrier that may be transportable and easily moved to enable curbside/mobile voting. The carrier may be ergonomically shaped for usage by passing through a vehicle window and resting in a voter's lap. In one embodiment, the carrier may include a printer to produce a printed vote record. The electronic voting system may include the use of a base station (for example located inside a polling building), the curbside/mobile carrier, and a smart panel that is dockable and removable to/from both the base station and the curbside/mobile carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Tinney, James M. Canter, Denton L. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20220012970
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Publication number: 20220012971
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Publication number: 20210225109
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Publication number: 20210142606
    Abstract: An electronic voting system that includes transportable voting equipment is described. Such transportable voting equipment includes a carrier that may be transportable and easily moved to enable curbside/mobile voting. The carrier may be ergonomically shaped for usage by passing through a vehicle window and resting in a voter's lap. In one embodiment, the carrier may include a printer to produce a printed vote record. The electronic voting system may include the use of a base station (for example located inside a polling building), the curbside/mobile carrier, and a smart panel that is dockable and removable to/from both the base station and the curbside/mobile carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Drew E. Tinney, James M. Canter, Denton L. Simpson
  • Patent number: 11004292
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Patent number: 10950078
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hart InterCivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko
  • Publication number: 20200334937
    Abstract: An electronic voting system is described that utilizes printed vote records (PVRs) in which a voter's vote selections are recorded in voter readable characters. Optical character recognition (OCR) techniques may then be utilized to scan the PVR to record the voter's selections. The OCR data is then utilized to generate the cast vote record. Thus, the electronic voting system directly interprets the voter selections from the PVR just as the voter sees the data. In this manner “what you see is what you get” printed vote record data is provided for a voter's viewing and that same data is used to generate the cast vote record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Drew E. Tinney, Ievgen Konovalenko