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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
Cyrus Bradford Clarke, Lexington, KY (US);
William Paul Cook, Lexington, KY (US);
Steven Wayne Parish, Lexington, KY (US);
William Shannon Spencer, Georgetown, KY (US);
Peter Eric Wallin, Lexington, KY (US);
Cyrus Bradford Clarke, Lexington, KY (US);
William Paul Cook, Lexington, KY (US);
Steven Wayne Parish, Lexington, KY (US);
William Shannon Spencer, Georgetown, KY (US);
Peter Eric Wallin, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A method for associating a customer accessible supply item of a first type with an imaging apparatus includes communicating identification information between the customer accessible supply item of the first type and the imaging apparatus; and operationally locking the customer accessible supply item of the first type with only the imaging apparatus based on the identification information, to the exclusion of other imaging apparatuses and other customer accessible supply items of the first type.