Patents by Inventor Stephen Cyril Joyce

Stephen Cyril Joyce 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).

  • Image analysis systems and devices for use therewith
    Patent number: 7106889
    Abstract: An image analysis system for automated reading of printed multi-character codes, for example on antibiotic susceptibility testing disks, makes use of an orientation means, for example an underline printed beneath the code, to bring the code or its image into canonical alignment with an optimum reading direction for the code. Automated reading of the codes on randomly-orientated AST disks is therefore possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Oxoid Limited
    Inventors: Eric Gordon Mahers, Stephen Cyril Joyce, Shail Patel, Derwent Swaine, Roger Fowler