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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154570 | Arrangement with a mobile data carrier and a hand-held device An arrangement (1) with a mobile data carrier (2) and a handheld device (4) displays driving periods, rest periods and other types of activity recorded by a tachograph and evaluated by the hand-held device (4). The hand-held device has an... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7373346 | Methods and apparatus for improved security services An apparatus and method for providing and/or obtaining security services includes a database of information which relates to security services provided for at least one client. A computer that is Internet accessible hosts the database. The database includes security... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7298673 | Time attendance clock and system A time attendance system, including a time attendance clock, designed to be used in harsh conditions, such as outdoor job sites. A portable touch button, including a passively readable code, is brought into contact with the time attendance clock so as to create a ti... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7212955 | Consumer product status monitoring Data associated with at least one characteristic associated with the viability of a product is monitored. The data associated with the at least one characteristic is analyzed, and based on the analyzing, at least one future viability state condition of the product i... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7029167 | Parking meter A parking meter includes a microcontroller and a timer coupled with a microcontroller. A mechanism for accepting payment by coin, credit card or both is coupled with the microcontroller for accepting payment for use of an associated parking space. The microcontrolle... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6998230 | Array fabrication with drop detection A drop deposition apparatus, and a method and computer program products using the drop deposition apparatus, for fabricating at least one addressable array of biopolymers on a substrate. The drop deposition apparatus has a drop dispenser unit and a sensing element. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6560166 | Time recorder equipped with radio wave clock A time recorder with a standard time radio wave receiving function is provided and a time display manually adjusted can be used even when time data is received from a standard time radio wave. When the time recorder is set manually such that a time is not... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6215735 | Postage meter having non-Gregorian calendar capability A postage metering system includes a device to monitor the passage of a unit of time, a calendar profile, a system date and a control system. The calendar profile has parameterized data including day, month, year and leap year information so that dates ma... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6061303 | Programmable time recorder A time recorder includes a digital display and a printer for printing selected information including time, date, comment and number. A removable cover covers programming text which surrounds the display. During programming, the cover is removed to expose ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5317547 | Time recorder When a time card is inserted in a time recorder, for daily flextime, and selection is made of a work starting time column using a printing column selection key, the current time is printed onto a specific location of the work starting time column of the c... | 05/31/1994 |
| 4847791 | Timekeeping system A system to process employee and job data, in a shop having a number of mechanic employees and a number of machines, including at least a first employee-input station, a second timekeeping station, and a third management station. A printer and a computer ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4837584 | Security time clock system System for requiring the contemporaneous application of time clock data and personal data to a time card to prevent or signal the fraudulent application of either type of data at a time which is substantially different from the other type of data, i.e., b... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4819162 | Time clock system including scheduling payroll and productivity analysis capability The computerized time clock system includes a personal computer via which employee, job and schedule records may be assembled and maintained. A computerized time clock communicates with the personal computer and received employee and scheduling data there... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4797663 | Portable security monitor and time recording A monitor utilizes a sensor which transmits a signal when a specific phenomenon has occurred. The time of the phenomenon is recorded in memory for later withdrawal and analysis by the operator. Being small, palm-sized, the monitor can easily be attached t... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4686624 | Portable apparatus for acquiring and processing data relative to the dietetics and/or the health of a person The portable apparatus for acquiring and processing information relative to the dietetics and/or health of a person comprises, in combination, a series (2) of alpha-numeric keys for inputting information relative to the dietetics and/or the health of the ... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4491399 | Method and apparatus for recording a digital signal on motion picture film A method and apparatus for recording a digital signal such as a modified SMPTE time code on motion picture film as it is being intermittently advanced by a motion picture camera. The recorded time code includes a set of timing bits followed immediately by... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4381511 | Printing device for a time recorder A printing device for a time recorder in which printing operation is performed on a preselected printing column of a time card by means of a dot printer, while the latter is transversely displaced by a distance equal to the width of a printing column of t... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4283769 | Time information print out at a preselected condition in an electronic calculator A printer calculator includes a time information keeping circuit for storing current time information. A state detection means is provided in the printer calculator for printing out the current time information stored in the time information keeping circu... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4281330 | Medical procedures monitoring and recording device A device for recording and monitoring medical procedures, particularly during emergency treatment, including a keyboard with several groups of keys, one group representing different medical treatments, another representing different medications, another r... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4208686 | Tape recorder with means for displaying a time by normal and stopwatch modes A tape recorder with means for displaying a time by normal and stopwatch modes is provided with a time signal generator, a first time data generator coupled with the time signal generator to produce first time data of normal mode, and a second time data g... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4175378 | Decimal timekeeping instrument A timekeeping instrument is disclosed which is suitable for teaching a new system of timekeeping, namely, decimal time. By decimal time is meant the division of a day into decimal components rather than the conventional division of the day into hours, min... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4122498 | Event data recording apparatus with digitally encoded time and date A data recording apparatus including a data recording circuit for recording event data provided by a data source on a first track of a magnetic tape and a time recording circuit which effects the recording of time reference data for the event data on a se... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4088990 | Time of day, time and date and event number generator for recordation of physiological events A code generator generates, upon command, code sequences representing either time of day, time and date, or event number codes, in either single sequences or continuously repeating code sequences for simultaneous recordation with a physiological event on ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4063071 | Flexitime recorder A flexitime recorder for informing workers of the respective actual times they have worked during a day's work program of work time including a break time as well as of a set work time within the day's work time less any break work time whereby each worke... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4060720 | Date printing device with electronic calendar clock A date printing device, such as a postal meter, includes an electronic calendar clock which generates and stores signals representing different days and months of the year. The electronic calendar clock provides one input to a comparison circuit. Another ... | 11/29/1977 |
