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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:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2018
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Kenneth K. Smith, Boise, ID (US);
Andrew P. Chick, Vancouver, WA (US);
Pratik Shah, San Diego, CA (US);
Adam Hornstein, San Diego, CA (US);
Dustin C. Rosing, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven Motzkus, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthew James Storey, Austin, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
In some examples, an apparatus can include a print substance gauge to indicate a quantity of print particles an imaging device is capable of receiving at a particular time, and an authentication mechanism coupled to a locking mechanism, the authentication mechanism includes instructions to: determine a quantity of print particles within a print particle container, and unlock the locking mechanism when the print substance gauge indicates that the imagining device is capable of receiving the quantity of print particles within the print particle container.