Patents by Inventor Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits

Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits 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 and method for using a non-contact memory tag to detect fraudulent use of printing devices
    Patent number: 11252297
    Abstract: A method of detecting fraudulent use of a printing device including a non-contact memory tag, including receiving a request to read the tag, receiving information from the tag, determining an installed configuration of the printing device from the information, comparing the installed configuration to a current configuration of the printing device, and in response to determining that the current configuration is not the same as the installed configuration, indicating that a violation exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Rajana Mukesh Panchani, Kenneth Schleede, Peter Granby, Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits
  • PRINTING DEVICE INCLUDING A NON-CONTACT MEMORY TAG TO DETECT FRAUDULENT USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20210281694
    Abstract: A printing device, comprising a frame, an image-forming module, a non-volatile memory (NVM), a control operatively arranged to read the NVM incidental to controlling the printing device, and a first tag connected to the frame, the first tag holding information relating to a configuration of the printing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Rajana Mukesh Panchani, Kenneth Schleede, Peter Granby, Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A NON-CONTACT MEMORY TAG TO DETECT FRAUDULENT USE OF PRINTING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20210281708
    Abstract: A method of detecting fraudulent use of a printing device including a non-contact memory tag, including receiving a request to read the tag, receiving information from the tag, determining an installed configuration of the printing device from the information, comparing the installed configuration to a current configuration of the printing device, and in response to determining that the current configuration is not the same as the installed configuration, indicating that a violation exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Rajana Mukesh Panchani, Kenneth Schleede, Peter Granby, Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits
  • System and method for using a non-contact memory tag to detect fraudulent use of printing devices
    Patent number: 10979594
    Abstract: A method of detecting fraudulent use of a printing device including a non-contact memory tag, comprising receiving, by one or more computer processors, a request to read the tag, receiving, by the one or more computer processors, information from the tag, determining, by the one or more computer processors, an installed configuration of the printing device from the information, comparing, by the one or more computer processors, the installed configuration to a current configuration of the printing device, and in response to determining that the current configuration is not the same as the installed configuration, indicating, by the one or more computer processors, that a violation exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Rajana Mukesh Panchani, Kenneth Schleede, Peter Granby, Patrick Wilhelmus Bernardus Gerrits