Patents by Inventor Paul E. Stanford

Paul E. Stanford 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).

  • Printing of automatically readable characters
    Patent number: 4023482
    Abstract: Hot printing of hard copy i.e., human readable, characters to meet the strict, high quality dimensional and other standards required for automatic optical or other means of reading such characters. The printing is effected by a heat responsive ink means. In the present embodiment, the ink means is heated by the printing members.Documents, especially tags or labels, marked with such hot printed automatically readable characters. The documents may also contain punched encoded information; and may further have printed thereon conventional, human but not automatically readable characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Litton Business Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Swett, Amnon Goldstein, Edward C. Marshall, Paul E. Stanford