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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Barton, Malmesbury, GB;
John Maurice Bartlett, Swindon, GB;
Assignee:
the Post Office, Croydon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209583 ; 209584 ; 209900 ; 235425 ; 23546212 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a sorting system, relying on the identification of items to be sorted by means of codes applied thereto, in which it is possible to infer the identity of items whose codes have become unreadable. The system relies on identifying the item by reference to the codes of items which precede and which follow the item.