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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:
Oct. 01, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2009
Applicants:
Mark Van Gorp, Cary, NC (US);
Elizabeth L. Manning, Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventors:
Mark Van Gorp, Cary, NC (US);
Elizabeth L. Manning, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Bell and Howell, LLC, Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D 27/06 (2006.01); B65D 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present teachings relate to techniques and equipment to prepare articles of manufacture that can be used in a document processing system, such as a wrapping document processing system, that individually wraps each form in a manner that produces a mailpiece. The manufactured mailpiece is an integrated bidirectional mailpiece having outgoing and return envelope functionality. In the outgoing format, the integrated mailpiece may optionally contain advertisements, coupons, inserted documents, statements or payment coupons.