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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:
May. 26, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Larry K Baxter, Lexington, MA (US);
Robert D Cohen, Belle Harbor, NY (US);
Mark S Ain, Newton, MA (US);
Sheldon P Apsell, Nahant, MA (US);
Assignee:
Kronos Inc., Brighton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06C / ; G06F / ; G06K / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235419 ; 235377 ; 235432 ; 235455 ; 235487 ; 346 86 ;
Abstract
This disclosure is concerned with time-clock recording and computation that, through a novel clock track card and separate clock track and data channel optical reading, in cooperation with microprocessor calculation, storage and control, enables automating employee time and attendance and similar data in a format directly recordable on the card and also directly useable by payroll or other processing computers and the like.