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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2017
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Inventors:
Malgorzata M. Sturgill, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Steven J. Simske, Fort Collins, CO (US);
A. Marie Vans, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example system includes a stage identification portion to determine a stage in a progression of a progressive identifier, and an identifier encoding portion to encode or read the progressive identifier. A number or percentage of bits of the progressive identifier encoded, or read as encoded, by the identifier encoding portion is uniquely associated with the stage in the progression.