Patents by Inventor Robert Stier

Robert Stier 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).

  • Publication number: 20100059583
    Abstract: A double postcard mailer has personal information on an interior face, which is concealed by a panel. The panel is affixed to the interior face with adhesive, except at a flap having a tab extending form the panel. The panel can be removed to reveal the personal information by pulling the tab and separating the panel from the interior face. In some embodiments, the panel is perforated and the panel tears at the perforations in order to remove a portion of the panel and reveal the information. In other embodiments, the flap is affixed to an opposing interior face, so that as the double postcard is opened, portions of the panel are removed by staying attached to the opposing interior face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Stier, Glen D. Wordekemper
  • Publication number: 20070083448
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a presentation instrument in combination with a financial statement includes a host computer system and a printer communicatively coupled to the host computer system. A presentation instrument initializing machine is communicably coupled to the host computer system. The system also includes a mail processing machine. The host computer system is configured to determine when to consolidate the presentation instrument with the financial reporting information, to transmit instructions to the printer to print the financial reporting information, to transmit instructions to the presentation instrument initializing machine to initialize a presentation instrument and to transmit to the mail processing machine instructions to combine the presentation instrument with the printed financial reporting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Prchal, Steven Albee, Gary Chladek, Barbara Gaines, Gerald Gross, Sandra Haugen, Brenda Kann, Christina Provost, Terry Royer, Robert Stier, Glen Wordekemper
  • Publication number: 20060282379
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable mediums are disclosed for strategic communications. In one embodiment, the strategic communications system comprises a rules data store including a decision rule, a recipient data store including recipient data for a plurality of recipients, and decision logic configured to determine for each of the recipients whether to include a decision-based component on the correspondence for the respective recipient based at least on the decision rule and the data associated with the respective recipient. The strategic communications system further includes correspondence manager logic to format the correspondence for each of the recipients and a printer including a selective perforation module to selectively add the perforation to the correspondences including the decision-based component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Glen Wordekemper, Robert Stier, Michelle Ellwanger, Kelly Liberty, Sandra Haugen, William Hickox
  • Publication number: 20060278693
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining security features to be included upon a commercial instrument. Security features are dynamically selected for inclusion on a particular commercial instrument based on the characteristics of the customer, as applied to the security criteria related to the particular instrument. The selected security features are printed on the applicable instrument, and this process of dynamic selection and printing may be repeated for each of a number of additional instruments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicant: First Data Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Stier, Glen Wordekemper, Kelly Liberty, Sandra Haugen, William Hickox, Michelle Ellwanger
  • Patent number: 4092756
    Abstract: Diver's Caddy Vessel, adapted primarily to move beneath a seaway surface, made buoyant by the diver's exhalant into a skirt of the vessel, whereby to offset suspension weight of diver's gear, game and the like, characterized by a collapsible, bladder-like enclosure which is elongate in exterior configuration, open at the bottom, the bottom being defined by a dependent skirt and having a stringer interiorally thereof. The caddy stringer is adapted to the detachable engagement of a restraint line to the diver and/or stringer extensions for gear and game, the vessel further including a connector at one end for towing on a seaway surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Inventor: Barry Robert Stier