Miscellaneous Patents (Class 283/117)
  • Publication number: 20110031736
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for repurposing consumer materials. A user may repurpose an article of consumer material by reusing, recycling and sharing the consumer material with another subsequent user. A user of repurposable consumer material may track the transmission of the consumer materials by using information and resources provided and enterable into a tracking system and the process may be substantially repeated with subsequent users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventor: Christine J. Eichers
  • Publication number: 20100213699
    Abstract: Various thematic sets of paper napkins are comprised of individual napkins, each of which is imprinted with different question or group of questions relating to a specific subject, theme, age group, interest and/or social setting. The questions are imprinted on an outer ply of the napkin, while answers and/or hints to the questions can be imprinted on the inner plies of the napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventor: Maureen Tremper
  • Publication number: 20100206243
    Abstract: A canine exercise and mobility product, kit, and system is disclosed. The product may include a reconfigurable canine exercise, and mobility, apparatus. The apparatus may be reversibly reconfigurable between a first configuration and a second configuration. A contact element may be attached to a platform in the first configuration, to contact an underlying surface, and to allow the platform to tilt, and/or to wobble, while the canine stands or leans on the platform. The platform may be configured to be held by human user to control an amount, and/or a rate, of tilt, and/or wobble. A translational element may be attached to the platform in the second configuration to support the platform in a substantially stable manner, and to allow the platform to translate across the surface while supporting at least a portion of the canine's weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventor: Maria C. Caiozzo
  • Publication number: 20100192793
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing panels of the type having at least a substrate and a printed decor with a relief provided on the substrate involves printing, whether or not by the intermediary of primer layers, at least a portion of the decor onto the substrate and forming the relief. The relief is formed at least partially after the portion of the decor has been printed on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventor: Bart Verhaeghe
  • Patent number: 7758081
    Abstract: A method of preparing documents for the transmission of secure information comprises the steps of preparing a first laminar element (13; 37) with a peripheral region (15) separable from a central region (14), printing the secure information on the central region (14) of the first laminar element (13; 37), or on a central region (19) of a second laminar element (12; 36), positioning the two laminar elements (13; 37, 12; 36) in face-to-face relation, with the face of the element bearing the information facing the said other element, and securing the element together around the peripheral regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: QTAC Solutions Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter John Prater
  • Patent number: 7744130
    Abstract: A tag with features to enable its authenticity to be determined includes a hidden code intermixed with a visible pattern such that the hidden code is not readily detectable under ambient light condition, without the use of a specially designed reader. In one embodiment the tag is formed with a first layer containing a hidden code, formed of reflective elements, which overlies a second layer which is designed to absorb light having a predetermined wavelength (e.g., IR light). The hidden code can be detected by projecting a light source having the predetermined wavelength (e.g., an IR source) at a predetermined angle on the tag and using a sensor to sense the reflection from the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Inventors: Victor Zazzu, Wenyu Han
  • Patent number: 7744131
    Abstract: A one-piece adhesive label is provided incorporating an integral tear strip. The tear strip is formed as the user grasps one activation tab that resides on either opposite end of the label. Preferably, one tab is formed at each opposite end. Slits formed on the opposite ends of the label adjacent the tabs enable the label to be torn in a uniform manner, taking advantage of the particular material characteristics of the label sheet that has unidirectional fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Corporate Express US Inc.
    Inventor: Debra A. Urbanek
  • Patent number: 7744129
    Abstract: An areal security element for security papers, documents of value and the like, with at least two different areal security features (20, 22) disposed one above the other, which each are recognizable upon viewing the security element from opposite sides, wherein the first security feature (20) has a thin-layer element (42) provided with an areal diffraction structure (46) with color shift effect, which contains a first reflection layer (40) with a first color effect, the second security feature (22) has a second reflection layer (44) provided with an areal diffraction structure (46) for producing a diffractive image, which shows a second color effect different from the first color effect, and wherein the thin-layer element (42) of the first security feature (20) and the reflection layer (44) of the second security feature (22) are provided with the same areal diffraction structure (46).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Heim
  • Publication number: 20100156086
    Abstract: An information providing apparatus includes a leaflet obtaining section, a leaflet analysis section that extracts information on the leaflet obtained by the leaflet obtaining section and updates leaflet list data, the leaflet list data being a list of the information extracted from a plurality of the leaflets, a preference analysis section that calculates the number of appearances of information of the same keyword in the leaflet list data and generates preference data in which a correspondence between the keyword and the number of appearances thereof has been recorded, a recommendation information generation section that selects a keyword based on the number of appearances in the preference data, extracts information including the selected keyword from the leaflet list data, and generates recommendation information based on the extracted information, and a recommendation information providing section that provides the recommendation information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki YAI, Tetsuya MIZUKAMI, Kensuke OKANO
  • Patent number: 7740280
    Abstract: In an embodiment, there is disclosed a product labeling system comprising: a first high energy electromagnetic or particle wave generator, at least one second high energy electromagnetic of particle wave generator; and a controller operatively configured to direct wave produced by said first generator and the wave produced by said second generator onto a portion of the subsurface of the product to mark the product at said subsurface without generating any substantial disruption of the surface of said product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Inventor: Steven J. Moore
  • Patent number: 7740281
    Abstract: A system for generating secure documents includes a station for generating a plain document and a security image generator that generates a security image. The security image is then incorporated into the plain document. Each security image consists of a plurality of secure elements, each secure element being defined by two sets of parallel lines. Each secure element defines an alphanumeric character or other unique image that is visible under certain conditions, i.e., when inspected through a viewer. The technique can also be used to provide security images on a web page as a means of indicating that the web page is genuine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: The Ergonomic Group
    Inventors: Gene F Gaffney, William R O'Brien
  • Patent number: 7740282
    Abstract: A cable port identification system is disclosed that provides identification facilities for communication, data, other cabling and/or wires and the connectors to which they are coupled found in a multi-port station. In some implementations the identification facilities can include label retention and protection and may also include label magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick S. McNutt, Phillip Phung, James Lee Martin
  • Publication number: 20100140914
    Abstract: An organizer for assisting a medical patient to record information provided by a physician or other healthcare provider for later review by the patient or patient caregiver includes a front and back cover bound together and to interposed sheets, dividers and other materials disposed between the covers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventor: Laurel Stoll
  • Patent number: 7731239
    Abstract: A card forming sheet includes an opaque printing sheet and a transparent film placed over the printing sheet, so that the transparent film can be peeled away from the printing sheet and cannot be re-bonded to the printing sheet. Moreover, the card forming sheet includes a transparent adhesive and a peeling sheet placed over the adhesive layer. The printing sheet is divided into a substantially rectangular address describing part, an information describing part adjacent to one side of the address describing part, and a concealing part adjacent to another side of the address describing part. The card forming sheet is folded along a boundary between the address describing part and the information describing part. The two sides are bonded together so that the printing sheet is placed to the outside, and the card forming sheet is then folded along a boundary between the concealing part and the address describing part and bonded together, removably concealing the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Kalbas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nishida, Takao Tsubouchi, Mariko Ueki, Kenji Hirose
  • Patent number: 7726696
    Abstract: A label assembly that includes a face sheet with at least one label shape defined by one or more tearable lines of separation, a back sheet adjacent to the face sheet, and an adhesive material disposed between the face sheet and the back sheet. The back sheet has a removable panel disposed over the label shape adhesive material and a registration structure aligned with the label shape. The registration structure is raised or raisable above the back sheet to allow an object for labeling to be positioned against the registration structure for proper alignment with the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Continental Datalabel, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Flynn, Patrick J. Flynn
  • Patent number: 7722082
    Abstract: A system for inserting numeric labels automatically includes: a setting module (10) configured for setting label properties of inserting numeric labels to define a numeric labels configuration; an input/output module (12) configured for reading the label properties, importing a technical drawing file to be inserted with the numeric labels; a selecting module (14) configured for extracting an array of references to be inserted with the numeric label from the technical drawing file; and a labeling module (16) configured for labeling the references in the array of references with numeric labels correspondingly according to the numeric labels configuration. A related method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Kuang Chang, Xin-Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 7722083
    Abstract: A labeling apparatus has a source of printed labels that have adhesive backing, a vacuum pickup with two opposable arms, a blower bar to support a label on air. Each opposable arm has its own vacuum head and each head is removably attachable to a respective end portion of the label. The apparatus also has a label position sensor, and the vacuum pickup is movable from a pickup position to a wrap position. Each pickup arm has a plurality of spring loaded pins. A two layer label has a backing strip, an inner layer, and an outer layer, and at least one removable portion of the outer layer. The label has a neck portion and two end portions, such that the label set may be wrapped a container with the two end portions adhered back to back to each other. The neck portion is relatively narrower than either of the two end portions and is relatively offset so that it is closer to a front edge of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Talyst Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas G. McCarthy, James E. Torina, Darcy Clarke, John Andrew Moulds, Thomas E. Vorndran
  • Patent number: 7717469
    Abstract: A sheet of embossed paper including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The invention may also include a notebook including a plurality of sheets of paper, each sheet including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The notebook may include binding means binding the plurality of sheets together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: J. Michael Tims, Catherine Ayres, Sandra L. Cashman
  • Publication number: 20100118261
    Abstract: Novel polymers for biomedical use, especially rigid gas permeable contact lenses that are based on bulky side-chain siloxane cross linkers. The siloxanes, either alone, or as copolymers with bulky and non-bulky mono-functional polymerizable siloxanes, fluoro monomers, such as hexafluoroisopropyl methacrylate, and hydrophilic monomers, result in transparent, high oxygen permeable polymers possessing excellent lathing and milling characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Joseph A. McGee, Jay F. Kunzler, Richard M. Ozark, Joseph C. Salamone
  • Patent number: 7703811
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a security element for security substrates, such as those used for banknotes and the like, having enhanced public recognition, anti-counterfeit and detection properties. A security element comprising an elongate strip of a light transmitting polymeric substrate, said substrate being provided with a magnetic feature and a metallic design, the metallic design being provided by a combination of metal and non-metallic regions and comprising indicia, characters, patterns, designs, or geometrical shapes or a combination of the aforesaid design comprising at least one repeating pattern or which one or more of the frequency, the instantaneous amplitude and/or the maximum amplitude of the pattern varies along the length of the element, said pattern being positioned relative to the magnetic feature such that it does not overlap therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: De La Rue International, Ltd.
    Inventor: Roland Isherwood
  • Patent number: 7699352
    Abstract: A method for producing a continuous web of printed material for use in creating mailpieces. The continuous web has a width and a length, the length comprised of a series of attached sheets. The series of attached sheets are comprising envelope sheets and rectangular content pages. The content pages are rectangular in shape and may be oriented relative to the envelope sheets in a number of different configurations. In some configurations, two sets of content pages and/or envelope sheets can be printed across the width of the web. Sheets for forming business return envelopes may be printed in series with the content pages and envelope sheets. BREs may include individualized return addresses. A control code may be printed on one or more of the sheets for a given mailpiece, providing information for controlling assembly of the mailpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Denis J. Stemmle, Clare E. Woodman, John W. Sussmeier, Michael J. Cummings
  • Publication number: 20100089266
    Abstract: A method for making a broadsheet newspaper is provided. The method includes the steps of printing an image on a web, longitudinally folding the web to form a half-fold, cross-cutting the web to form signatures and cross-folding the signatures at a height of 33% or less or 67% or more. A further preferred method for making a broadsheet newspaper is provided. The method includes the steps of printing an image on a web, longitudinally folding the web to form a half-fold, cross-cutting the web to form signatures and cross-folding the signatures at a height 10.5 inches or more from an edge of the newspaper. Broadsheet newspapers are also provided. A printing press is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: John Sheridan Richards
  • Patent number: 7686341
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data carrier having a security element that is at lest visually testable and has an embossing in at least a partial area, the embossing being a halftone blind embossing executed by inkless line intaglio printing, and to a method for producing the data carrier and a printing plate for blind-embossing a security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Roger Adamczyk, Reinhard Plaschka, Karlheinz Mayer, Peter Franz
  • Patent number: 7681921
    Abstract: A system, method, computer program, and business form that may be used to more quickly, accurately, and efficiently label, identify, track, and inventory new and previously-owned vehicles on an auto dealer's lot. Many aspects may also be used to track other objects such as hotel keys. The computer program and method include the steps of: receiving vehicle information for at least one vehicle to be delivered to the auto dealer; storing the vehicle information in a vehicle database accessible by the computer; receiving data obtained from the vehicle when the vehicle is delivered to the auto dealer; comparing the data to the vehicle database to determine if vehicle information has been received for the vehicle; and directing a printer to print at least a portion of the vehicle information on an identifier to be applied to the vehicle if the data corresponds to the vehicle information in the vehicle database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ward-Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Merlin Mercer, James P. Harman, Jr., Loyce W. Harman, legal representative, Mary Lillian Sisseck, Lance J. Triplett, Duane L. Zimmer, Billy G. Cowan
  • Patent number: 7677601
    Abstract: A patient starter kit for distributing a product sample together with educational materials or additional product samples is disclosed. Integral to the kit is a one or a two-compartment packaging technique that provides pharmaceutical product samples in the same container as other patient drug information, disease state material and consumer product samples, coupons, other forms of media and/or related consumer products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventor: John Garett
  • Patent number: 7654575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include personalized books as well as methods and kits for providing personalized books. One method includes: providing an adult with a list of interview information to be obtained from a child; providing the adult with a list of particular drawings to be obtained from the child; obtaining the interview information from the child in the form of a number of personal comments provided by the child; obtaining a number of drawings from the list of particular drawings, the number of drawings independently created by the child at the direction of the adult; and creating a personalized book by combining the obtained number of drawings created by the child and the obtained number of personal comments in a particular arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: I See Me! Inc.
    Inventor: Maia B. Haag
  • Patent number: 7654579
    Abstract: The invention concerns an object of value (15), for example a credit card, banknote or identity card. The object of value (15) has a carrier layer (1), at least one first layer (21) containing a moiré pattern and at least one second layer (31, 33) containing a moiré analyzer for the moiré pattern of the first layer (21). That second layer is arranged above or beneath the first layer in a fixed position relative to the first layer in such a way that the moiré pattern of the first layer (21) and the moiré analyzer of the second layer (31, 33) are permanently optically superimposed at least in region-wise fashion, whereby a permanent moiré image is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: OVD Kinegram AG
    Inventor: Achim Hansen
  • Publication number: 20100006652
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for business marketing and client management and in particular to, a client welcome pack which provides a complete customer relationship management/marketing system that is designed to assist a business owner in meeting the basic business objectives that need to be achieved on a daily basis to drive and grow the business.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: Boutique Marketing
    Inventor: Vanessa Louise McDonald
  • Publication number: 20090313865
    Abstract: A scent strip is applied to envelopes and bags as well as greeting cards sold in stores and includes a plastic foam elastomeric substrate containing micro-encapsulated scented material. A marketing activation tab is affixed to a protective release liner to aid in manually peeling the liner off of the greeting card while at the same time preventing the greeting card from being inserted into an envelope used to send the greeting card, unless the protective security release liner is separated from the greeting card, enabling subsequent scent release by a recipient of the card. Also, the protective security release liner has a small window therein, enabling a prospective product purchaser to scratch the scent strip and sniff a small amount of sampled scented material passing through the small window from the scent material containing substrate, and yet preventing undesirable release of substantial scent material within a store selling the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventors: Stephen Vincent Peretti, Rita Marlene Brett-Bold
  • Publication number: 20090295851
    Abstract: Methods and/or systems for printing or otherwise evincing temporary indicia on media with disappearing inks are described along with suitable disappearing ink formulations and media constructions for executing the same. In particular embodiments, the methods and/or systems described employ a plurality of disappearing inks with different disappearing rates. In one embodiment, a barrier layer that is selectively used to cover a major surface of the media is employed to substantially block or otherwise regulate a rate of phase transitions (e.g., evaporation and/or sublimation) experienced by ink borne by the media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION
    Inventors: David N. Edwards, Ali R. Mehrabi, Haochuan Wang, Juan M. De Santos Avila, Pradeep S. Iyer, Liviu Dinescu, Srikant Pathak, Nagarajan Srivatsan, Frank Y. Shih
  • Publication number: 20090289447
    Abstract: A business form product (10) broadly including a printable sheet (12), a magnetic sheet (14) aligned edge-to-edge with the printable sheet (12) to define a seam (16), and a heat-resistant tape (18) applied over the seam (16) to retain the sheets (12,14) in the edge-to-edge relationship is disclosed. The inventive business form product (10, 106) is formed by joining multiple continuous webs (38, 58) edge-to-edge and marrying the webs (38,58) with a continuous streamer of tape (86) in a press (36). A preferred embodiment of the inventive method of forming the continuous sheet (106) is disclosed wherein at least one rotatable mechanical web guide (72) is used to align the webs (38,58) in the edge-to-edge relationship, thereby enabling precise alignment not available with existing optic-type web guides. A preferred embodiment of the printable business form product (10) is disclosed wherein heat-resistant tape (18) enables the business form product (10) to be printed in high-heat printing applications (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: WARD-KRAFT, INC.
    Inventor: Jesse D. Crum
  • Patent number: 7568734
    Abstract: A personal regulator or device having special covers and a plurality of interior panels or pages containing various hinged structures. The hinging structures are precision expandable hinges which permit portions of consecutive panels to be functionally interactive and viewed simultaneously and/or to permit viewing of different portions of interior panels while viewing two charts attached to the device enclosures. The precision expandable hinging structures provide and allow for a plurality of charts to be viewed simultaneously and accurately registered with each other without the need of repeatedly turning between pages or panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Inventor: Richard P. Hockensmith
  • Publication number: 20090146411
    Abstract: Provided are combinational articles comprising, as a pair, a depiction of the front side of an object, the depiction being on a planar body and a depiction of the rear side of the same object, the depiction being on a separate planar body, and provided are also an ornament obtained by working the combinational articles into a form suitable for decoration as well as a card, a picture book, a room divider, an article of clothing and a painting each comprising the combinational articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Hiromi Sakai
  • Patent number: 7533905
    Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-counterfeiting system. In a particular embodiment, the anti-counterfeiting system has a first structure having a plurality of three-dimensional nanostructures, each having a height dimension less than a wavelength of visible light. In addition, there is a second structure having a second plurality of three-dimensional nanostructures, each having a height dimension less than a wavelength of visible light. The first and second structures are configured to couple together. An alignment mechanism is operable to align the first structure to the second structure and establish proximate contact between the first and second pluralities of nanostructures. With respect to the first and second structures, each encodes part of an authentication key. The authentication key includes pre-determined elements and interaction modalities. The resolution of the structures makes them copy-resistant. An associated method of use is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Warren Jackson, Ping Mei
  • Publication number: 20090085343
    Abstract: A memory keeper kit for recording and graphically depicting events and facts of a person's life by making notes about the facts and events in writeable cells located on one easy to review chart is presented. The system comprises a box, a scrapbook album and an elongated timeline sheet comprising a plurality of writeable pages, each page defined in part by at least one fold that joins to a successive page and each page comprising a portion of a timeline comprising a chart and a banner. The sheet comprises a life categories banner, at least one time scale banner, a news events banner, a US President banner, and a chart having vertical and horizontal parallel arranged intersecting lines imprinted thereon for defining a plurality of writeable cells for recording events and facts of a person's life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventor: William R. Burch, V
  • Publication number: 20090001710
    Abstract: A document containing security images which enable original documents to be distinguished from copies of the originals. The document may include a background of a first color and an image formed of a second and third color which appear to be the first color when viewed together, providing a hidden image which does not appear in reproductions of the document. The document may contain a background of a first color printed with lines at a first angle, and an image of the first color but having lines printed at a different angle, providing a hidden image which does not appear in reproductions of the document. The document may contain a background of printed with lines at a first angle and a predetermined line frequency, and an image printed with lines at a second angle and at a line frequency less the one half of the line frequency of the background, providing a substantially hidden image which appears in a reproduction of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: DOCUMENT SECURITY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas M. WICKER
  • Patent number: 7429062
    Abstract: Frequency varying patterns are aligned on the front and back surfaces of a document to provide an anti-counterfeiting security device. The frequency varying patterns are reversed images. The document is sufficiently transparent to allow see-through of the pattern on the back of the document to be superimposed on the pattern on the front of the document. The frequency varying patterns will form a moire pattern if misaligned, regardless of the magnitude and the orientation of the misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Zhigang Fan, Shen-ge Wang
  • Patent number: 7416222
    Abstract: A three ply folding card. A method of manufacturing folding cards involving folding two edge portions of a sheet over a central portion to superposition two or three plies of the folding card against each other. A blank for forming folding cards having a plurality of plies of the folding cards positioned on either side of a fold line, one or more of the plies, and its corresponding ply on the other side of the fold line being oriented differently to the other ply or plies. A sheet comprising a plurality of blanks or arrays of plies for forming folding cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: MegaPrint Group Limited
    Inventors: Antonius Cornelius Verbruggen, Geoff Rayner
  • Publication number: 20080122216
    Abstract: A device and method for designating visibly discernible areas of notebook pages for students, to include areas on such page for writing notes, writing summaries, writing new words and writing homework preparations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Dena Lehrman, Michelle Berkowitz
  • Publication number: 20080091162
    Abstract: A three dimensional printed article having a composite image printed thereon is disclosed. The composite image includes top and bottom artwork portions printed on the top and bottom surfaces of the printed article substrate. Both artwork portions are visible through a translucent or transparent substrate, thereby forming a visible composite image. The substrate can be a non-woven web. By printing on both surfaces of the substrate, the three dimensional printed article provides a good quality, aesthetically pleasing three-dimensional image that limits the loss of color and appearance of fuzz during normal use of the article. The three-dimensional printed article allows a more versatile creation of process colors and reduces the number of spot colors required to print the composite image. The three-dimensional printed article can be integrated into an absorbent article, such as a diaper. A method of printing the three-dimensional printed article and forming the absorbent article are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Clarissa Maldonado, John Molander, Alrick Vincent Warner, Thomas Alexander Horn
  • Patent number: 7267371
    Abstract: A correspondence kit and method for continued and repeated mailing or sharing or exchanging of a journal between two or more participants. The kit includes a journal of blank writing pages, multiple mailing envelopes, a primary sending envelope and accessories such as photo corners, stickers and labels. One participant will write in the book, add mementos, photographs and similar items. The book will be mailed, with return envelopes to another participant, who will add to the book, and return it to the original sender, or to another participant. The journal is exchanged between the participants until it is complete.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Inventor: Paul Westrick
  • Patent number: 7226087
    Abstract: A method of applying an authentication image to an article is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digitized version of the authentication image, encoding the digitized version of the authentication image to produce an encoded latent image, and printing the encoded latent image on a printable surface of the article containing a primary image using a transmittent printing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Graphic Security Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred V. Alasia, Thomas C. Alasia, Alfred J. Alasia
  • Patent number: 7192061
    Abstract: The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart. The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular year or month. The monthly calendar is made of a dry-erase board displaying a month grid that is filled in with erasable ink for any particular month. The chart is a grid used to permanently record and display birth dates and other annual dates such as anniversaries and holidays. The chart displays columns intersected by rows. The columns are grouped in twelve sets of two having a month column adjacent to a year column. The rows display the dates of each month down the left side of the chart, numbered from 1–31. An event is recorded in the chart by writing the event's name in the appropriate month and date space and the year in the adjacent year space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Inventor: Judy A. Martin
  • Patent number: 7151541
    Abstract: A moveable animated display device for displaying a plurality of images with a pressure plate carrier, a pressure plate retained in relation to the pressure plate carrier, a plurality of coded images, a plurality of shutter elements slidably retained in relation to the plurality of coded images, and at least one biasing formation, such as a crease, in the pressure plate for inducing a biasing of the pressure plate toward the pressure plate carrier. The display device can have the pressure plate slidably retained relative to the pressure plate carrier, and the biasing formation can be parallel or orthogonal to a path of travel of the pressure plate in relation to the pressure plate carrier. The display device can comprise a card wherein a pivoting of a cover member relative to a base member induces animation as an animation layer slides in relation to the pressure plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Inventor: Rufus Butler Seder
  • Patent number: 7118135
    Abstract: A sheet of embossed paper including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The invention may also include notebook including a plurality of sheets of paper, each sheet including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The notebook may include binding means binding the plurality of sheets together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: J. Michael Tims, Catherine Ayres, Sandra L. Cashman
  • Patent number: 7118134
    Abstract: A dual sided integral composite image product and method of make same. The image product includes a first support substrate having a separate image layer thereon and a second support substrate having separate image layer thereon. The second support substrate being secured to the first support substrate so as to form the dual sided integral composite image product. A fold line is provided on said image product about which the integral composite image product may be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph A. Manico, Dale F. McIntyre, John K. McBride
  • Patent number: 7093857
    Abstract: The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart. The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular time period. The monthly calendar displays a month, either from a single use calendar or by filling in a month grid disposed on a dry-erase board with erasable ink. The chart is a grid used to permanently record and display birth dates and other annual dates such as anniversaries and holidays. The chart displays columns intersected by rows. The columns are grouped in twelve sets of two having a month column adjacent to a year column. The rows display the dates of each month down the left side of the chart, numbered from 1–31. An event is recorded in the chart by writing the event's name in the appropriate month and date space and the year in the adjacent year space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Inventor: Judy A. Martin
  • Patent number: 7090252
    Abstract: A dual sided integral composite image product and method of make same. The image product includes a first support substrate having a separate image layer thereon and a second support substrate having separate image layer thereon. The second support substrate being secured to the first support substrate so as to form the dual sided integral composite image product. A fold line is provided on said image product about which the integral composite image product may be folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph A. Manico, Dale F. McIntyre, John K. McBride
  • Patent number: 7077596
    Abstract: A two-way pocket assembly for use with a notebook (100). The pocket assembly is constructed over a window (208) formed in a subsurface material of the notebook (100). The pocket assembly includes exterior and interior pockets (104), each covering at least a portion of the window (208). The exterior and interior pockets (104) provide access to the pocket assembly from either the exterior (102) or interior (204) of the notebook (100). The pocket may be configured to receive and hold a personal electronic assistant, a cellular telephone (302), or another personal electronic device. The interior pocket includes a window material that allows visual access to the interior (204) of the pocket assembly through the material of the interior pocket (104). The pocket may be constructed so that a personal electronic assistant held inside the pocket assembly is usable through the window without removing the device from the pocket assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: MeadWestvaco Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald M. Bianco, Douglas M. Jack
  • Patent number: 7021666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a greeting card containing a thermal transfer sheet. The transfer sheet of the present greeting card includes a (1) a support; (2) optionally at least one transfer layer; and (3) an image or an image receiving layer. According to the present greeting card, if the transfer material contains only (1) a support, and (3) an image, the image is not formed using a transferable ink. However, transferable inks may be used under specific conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Foto-Wear Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Hare