Patents by Inventor Karine Marquis

Karine Marquis 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).

  • System for controlling the ink level in franking machine
    Patent number: 6659579
    Abstract: In a franking machine comprising a base and a disposable head provided with ink jet printing means, a method of printing postal indicia is proposed, comprising the following steps: activating said disposable head in response to determined parameters of identification extracted from memory means of this head and recognized as valid by said base, sending towards said disposable head from said base franking data representative of postal indicia to be printed, comprising static data and dynamic data, calculating in said base the number of droplets to be projected in order to print the dynamic data and add this number to that corresponding to the printing of the static data, previously memorized in said memory means, to obtain a total number of droplets to be projected for printing said postal indicia, determining the volume of ink consumed corresponding to that total number of droplets to be projected and memorize this volume of consumed ink in said memory means, and calculating the remaining volume of ink i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Neopost Industrie
    Inventor: Karine Marquis
  • System for controlling the ink level in franking machine
    Publication number: 20020070986
    Abstract: In a franking machine comprising a base and a disposable head provided with ink jet printing means, a method of printing postal indicia is proposed, comprising the following steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: NEOPOST INDUSTRIE
    Inventor: Karine Marquis