Patents by Inventor Robert T. Rourke

Robert T. Rourke 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).

  • Illumination system
    Patent number: 6246464
    Abstract: In a document processing array, an imaging/illumination arrangement for illuminating and imaging the documents at one or several imaging-sites as they are rapidly transported there-past, each site having, as its illumination source, a hollow Lambertian integrating cylinder housing lamps which project essentially all their light onto the inner cylinder walls to be reflected/diffused thereby in Lambertian fashion and sent to the imaging site(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Vala, Clive E. Catchpole, Johan P. Bakker, Robert T. Rourke, Paul Stolis, Gary B. Copenhaver, David J. Valice, David J. Concannon
  • Document imaging with illumination from lambertian surfaces
    Patent number: 5825945
    Abstract: In a check processing array, an imaging/illumination arrangement for illuminating and imaging checks at one or several imaging sites as they are rapidly, continuously transported past two or more imaging stations, each station having, as its illumination source, a hollow Lambertian integrating vessel, housing lamps which project a highly uniform, diffuse Lambertian illumination-beam to its respective imaging site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Unisys Corp
    Inventors: Paul Stolis, John D. Vala, Clive E. Catchpole, Johan P. Bakker, Gary B. Copenhaver, David J. Concannon, Robert T. Rourke, David J. Valice
  • Computer console
    Patent number: D265200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Assignee: Burroughs Corporation
    Inventors: John H. Pedersen, John Stencel, Jr., Richard W. Reaume, Robert T. Rourke, Michael N. Tranquilla, Michael A. Saunders