Patents by Inventor Rorger W. Cornelius

Rorger W. Cornelius 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).

  • Multilingual ink jet printer
    Patent number: 4289411
    Abstract: An interactive ink jet printer prints characters of a language from left to right or right to left in accordance with the direction in which the language is normally written. The signals for the direction in which a motor, which moves ink droplet supply device relative to a recording medium, the signals from a grating, which indicates the direction of motion of the ink droplet supply device and its position relative to a reference position, and the signals for the location of the ink droplet supply device at the reference position are changed whenever the direction of character printing is to be reversed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1981
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rorger W. Cornelius, James D. Hill, Paul A. Quinn, Jr.