Patents by Inventor Jim Firstbrook

Jim Firstbrook 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).

  • Software based method for simultaneously associating multiple, ordered collections of pages with multiple impositions
    Patent number: 7016068
    Abstract: A document's reader order list of pages represented in an imposition description file are decoupled from any single imposition. The decoupling mechanism is a software object called a pageset having positions associated with the pages of the document. A pageset may be associated with more than one imposition plan; more than one pageset may be associated with a single imposition plan; or more than one pageset can be associated with more than one imposition plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Kodak Graphic Communications Canada Company
    Inventors: Joe Gnocato, Afshin Mirmotahari, Jim Firstbrook