Patents by Inventor Michael L. Dertouzos

Michael L. Dertouzos 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).

  • Parallel thermal printer
    Patent number: 4067017
    Abstract: Visual indicia or patterns are produced as each of the successive increments extending across a continuously advancing web of paper or fabric is imprinted with a series of visual dots from a sheet or ribbon containing a visual medium by at least one closely packed series of elements that are selected instantly by electronic logic, energized simultaneously by electrical pulses, and recycled rapidly by a common electrical and thermal bus. Specified parameters have been found to combine rapid advancement of the web and close packing of the visual dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Michael L. Dertouzos
    Inventors: Michael L. Dertouzos, Huber L. Graham
  • Parallel thermal printer
    Patent number: 3984809
    Abstract: Visual indicia or patterns are produced as each of the successive increments extending across a continuously advancing web of paper or fabric is imprinted with a series of visual dots from a sheet or ribbon containing a visual medium by at least one closely packed series of elements that are selected instantly by electronic logic, energized simultaneously by electrical pulses, and recycled rapidly by a common electrical and thermal bus. Specified parameters have been found to combine rapid advancement of the web and close packing of the visual dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Michael L. Dertouzos
    Inventors: Michael L. Dertouzos, Huber L. Graham