Patents by Inventor Michael Lynn Vandemark

Michael Lynn Vandemark 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: 5993048
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for use by an individual customer to obtain a personalized greeting card of high quality, the system comprising: card type selection means for permitting an individual customer to obtain a completed personalized card from one of a plurality of blank cards having a preprinted design on at least a portion thereof and arranged proximate to the customer, design selection means for selection by an individual customer and from a plurality of available designs of a design to be provided on the completed personalized card, the plurality of available designs corresponding, at least in part, to the plurality of preprinted designs on the blank cards, message selection means for use by the individual customer to select particular printing material to be provided on the completed card, and card completion means, and control means for controlling the card completion means from the card type, design and message selection means for supply by the card completion means of a completed greeting card having
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Benton Banks, Michael Lynn Vandemark, Wallace Allan Yeskie, David Allen Mullin, Michael Ray Schupp
  • Patent number: 5778164
    Abstract: A system and method for combining a first digital generated image and one or more prestored digital images. The system include means for selecting one of the prestored digital images for and the steps of selecting an output format for printing the first digital generated image and the selected prestored image, providing the first digital generated image, combining the first digital generated image with the selected prestored digital image such that the generated image is placed in the predetermined location so as to form a merged image in accordance with the requirements of the selected output format, and for printing out the merged image in a desired format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignees: Eastman Kodak Company, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
    Inventors: John Bruce Watkins, Jeffrey Robert Myers, John Randall Fredlund, Joseph Anthony Manico, Anthony Ronald Berardi, Michael Lynn Vandemark