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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:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Theodosios Pavlidis, Setauket, NY (US);
Ynjiun Paul Wang, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Jerome Swartz, Old Field, NY (US);
Assignee:
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235462 ; 235454 ;
Abstract
A microfilm reader, which includes a bar code scanner, a controller, and a keyboard, receives microfilm containing documents and corresponding bar code symbols. Each bar code symbol contains data describing the contents of a respective document. The bar code scanner reads the bar code symbols located on the microfilm and transmits data representing the read bar code symbols to the controller. The controller determines whether the data received from the bar code scanner satisfies search criteria entered into the keyboard.