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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:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2004
Applicants:
John C. Handley, Fairport, NY (US);
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
Raphael F. Bov, Jr., Pittsford, NY (US);
Ying-wei Lin, Penfield, NY (US);
Inventors:
John C. Handley, Fairport, NY (US);
Zhigang Fan, Webster, NY (US);
Raphael F. Bov, Jr., Pittsford, NY (US);
Ying-wei Lin, Penfield, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for applying magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) technology to enable the embedding of coded information within text characters of a document.