Patents by Inventor Joel Robert Postman

Joel Robert Postman 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).

  • PCMCIA interface card for coupling input devices such as barcode scanning engines to personal digital assistants and palmtop computers
    Patent number: 5664231
    Abstract: There is disclosed a variety of PC Card interfaces to interface from many different types of input devices to Personal Digital Assistants or palmtop computers through PCMCIA slots.The disclosed interfaces can receive data in undecoded format from laser based, wand based or CCD based barcode scanning engines, decode the data to alphanumeric characters and pass the decoded data to the PDA via the PCMCIA 68 pin bus. Other PC Card based interfaces are also disclosed which can accept input data in the form of ASCII or EBCDIC characters from virtually any type of input device which a standard serial or parallel output or custom output bus and input that data to the PDA through the PCMCIA bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: TPS Electronics
    Inventors: Joel Robert Postman, David Peter Bergen, Ronald Craig Fish