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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7376257 | Apparatus for processing a sheet The present invention provides an apparatus for processing a sheet. When a medium having various patterns detected by a plurality of detecting sections for individually detecting plural kinds of features from a sheet, each detecting section detects plural kinds of f... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7349858 | Method of dispensing and tracking the giving of medical items to patients A method of tracking and dispensing the dispense of medical items for use by patients associated with a health care institution, includes storing in a data store in connection with a computer, data representative of patients and medical items prescribed for the pati... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7316351 | Marking a deposit item In order to identify an item, on which a return deposit can be imposed, an element, which can at least be read in the radio frequency range and/or optionally one which can be switched or activated, are/is provided on the item. This element is activated optionally be... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305113 | Paper-like sheet discriminator A paper-like sheet discriminator has reference rollers for detection of a thickness of a paper-like sheet and a detection roller opposing the reference rollers. The paper-like sheet is passed between the reference rollers and the detection rollers and its thickness ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7219838 | System and method for notifying a cashier of the presence of an item in an obscured area of a shopping cart A method of facilitating a checkout at a shopping cart checkout station is provided, comprising the steps of: inhibiting processing of items on the shopping cart in the event of a detection of a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart; and processing the ite... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218225 | System and method for detecting and rewarding the return of a supermarket trolley or a luggage trolley taken from a trolley park A system and a method for detecting and rewarding the return of supermarket carts or luggage carts taken from a cart stand. Each cart is provided with a contactless, preferably optically identifiable, individual mark, by which the cart is identified when it is retur... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199709 | Cart fleet management system A hand-operated cart constructed for carrying luggage or packages includes a frame including a cargo area, and cart wheels connected to the frame and connected to a handrail arranged for manually displacing the cart. The cart also includes a distance sensor construc... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191933 | Automatic fare paying device for vehicles and method A compact fare paying device has a housing for receiving a monetary member and at least one verifier unit in the housing for determining the authenticity of the monetary member. A storage device such as a safe can receive the monetary member or a return device can r... | 03/20/2007 |
| RE39490 | Security device having multiple security features and method of making same A security device having multiple security features is used with an item, such as a secure document, ticket, label or tag, to authenticate the item and/or encode data pertaining to the item. One example of the security device includes a carrier substrate, a metallic... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7147558 | System and method for dispensing gaming machine credits in multiple different media of monetary exchange A system and method for dispensing gaming machine credits in multiple different media of monetary exchange. In one embodiment, the method can include displaying a credit amount remaining on a credit meter. The method can also include receiving a selection from a pla... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7124935 | Check multifeed detection apparatus for use in a check processing terminal and detection method A multifeed detection apparatus and method for use in a check processing terminal including a paper supply unit for individually feeding a plurality of checks from the paper supply unit along a check transportation path in a given direction; a MICR head having a non... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7036012 | Method and system for secure cashless gaming A secure cashless gaming system comprises a plurality of gaming devices which may or may not be connected to a central host network. Each gaming device includes an intelligent data device reader which is uniquely associated with a security module interposed between ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6971867 | Recovery apparatus of molded parts Thin and light molded parts released from a die are prevented from sticking by static electricity, by forming the recovery chute of molded part with fine wire gauze. The recovery receptacle 16, 17 for molded parts, molded parts introduction tube 23 and... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6945457 | Automated transaction machine An automated retail terminal in which a plurality of goods and/or services are provided in an integrated system (40). The integrated system (40) generally avoids duplicating hardware or functions in the course of delivering the goods or services offere... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6929179 | Automated fee collection and parking ticket dispensing machine An automated fee collection and ticket dispensing machine is disclosed that is capable of operating under a variety of operating modes. The machine permits users to purchase a variety of passes. The disclosed machine includes printers to produce receipts or passes f... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930606 | Security device having multiple security detection features A security device, such as a security thread, uses multiple security detection features provided by combining metal and metal/magnetic security features on a carrier substrate. The security detection features basically comprise an optionally repeating pattern of dis... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6911908 | Security A security system for protecting articles (8), the system comprising at least one Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) loop (1) , one Emitting Unit (7) and one Detecting Unit (9) attached to each article (8) to be protected, the D... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6896117 | Apparatus for processing a sheet The present invention provides an apparatus for processing a sheet. When a medium having various patterns detected by a plurality of detecting sections for individually detecting plural kinds of features from a sheet, each detecting section detects plural kinds of f... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6731111 | Validity determination using magnetic ink having magnetic powders with different Curie temperatures The magnetic powder for validity determining ink is composed of magnetic oxide powder having a Curie temperature between −50° C. and 150° C. and a mean powder particle diameter of 10 μm or less. ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6644455 | Rental system, machine and method for providing rental items A rental system contains a plurality of rental digital cameras, and comprises a rental-item providing machine which provides users with digital cameras, respectively, and a management center which manages the digital cameras. The rental-item providing mac... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6640954 | Appliance timing system An appliance timing system includes a housing that has a perimeter all for defining an interior space. A switching assembly is positioned within the interior space of the housing. The switching assembly is operationally coupled between the appliance and a... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6549131 | Security device with foil camouflaged magnetic regions and methods of making same A method of covering, embedding or burying magnetically encodable regions, invisible to the naked eye at least on one side, in a magnetic/metallic security device begins by providing a security device carrier substrate having an imaged metallic region. A ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6498864 | Apparatus for authenticating products and authorizing processes using the magnetic properties of a marker The authenticity of an item which is one of a group of such items can be determined by attaching to or incorporating into each such item an authentication marker, all such markers interacting substantially identically with a given magnetic field. A field ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6486768 | Cart return loyalty credit system A system and method for providing an incentive to a cutomer of a store to return a shopping cart to a cart return location. The cart return location, such as a cart corral, has a plurality of detection loops at an entrance to the corral. The system detect... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6378684 | Detecting mechanism for a grocery cart and the like and system A shopping cart detection apparatus and reward dispensing mechanism for inclusion therewith for providing a patron reward in the form of a ticket, coupon, or the like, to a patron for their returning a shopping cart to a cart collection area. The shopping... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6260686 | Device for identification of coins and/or transponders In a device for identification of predetermined coins and/or transponders, coils are connected to a control unit for detecting the passage of predetermined coins and for identifying a code of circular transponders. A stop is operated for stopping the tran... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6255948 | Security device having multiple security features and method of making same A security device having multiple security features is used with an item, such as a secure document, ticket, label or tag, to authenticate the item and/or encode data pertaining to the item. One example of the security device includes a carrier substrate,... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6229306 | Method and apparatus for measuring magnetic properties of sheet material with both low and high magnetic particle density The method for measuring magnetic properties of sheet material is able to deliver reliable signals at both low and high magnetic particle density in the sheet material. First a measuring head converts the magnetic properties of the sheet material into ele... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6206165 | System for promoting the returning of service carts, e.g. shopping carts, intended for transporting commodities in an activity center, e.g. shopping centers In a returning system for service carts (24), said system comprising electronic monitoring of the movement of the carts (24) through an activity area, the main novel features are a) that the returning system is an electronic system operable in a deposit-f... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6186308 | Reverse vending machine A reverse vending machine is configured to selectively accept bulk fed containers, the machine including an in-feed station with an in-feed door and a hopper accessible via the in-feed door, the hopper having a first mouth which is open when the in-feed d... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6148987 | Coin identification apparatus A coin identification apparatus includes a pair of series connected coils driven by an oscillator. Frequency and/or amplitude characteristics of the oscillator output generated by the passage of a distinct token between the pair of coils are compared with... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6125987 | Key-type electronic coin selector A coin selector is provided which is adapted to electronically sample coins and compare the sampling data to stored data for genuine coins. The stored data can be preset or can be acquired and stored in memory by using a key coin. Data stored determines i... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6057683 | Induction sensor having conductive concentrator with measuring gap An induction head for sensing a magnetic strip or other magnetically permeable security structures includes an exciting coil associated with an electrically conductive concentrator, which produces a primary field and induces a responsive secondary field i... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6024203 | Cart management system and method A cart management apparatus and method for retaining and vending carts such as luggage carts, shopping carts, and strollers, includes a retaining device for selective retaining at least one of the carts; a cart identification sensor for uniquely identifyi... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5921373 | Cart management system A cart management apparatus for retaining and vending carts such as luggage carts, shopping carts, and strollers, includes a retaining rail for receiving cart keys disposed on the carts, a rotatable paddlewheel including a plurality of paddles, at least o... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5909793 | Coin counter prize-awarding method and apparatus using promotional coins The present invention uses promotional coins to encourage use of a coin counter. The promotional coins are minted in such a way that an unaided human is not likely to distinguish a first prize coin from other promotional coins, e.g., because all promotion... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5908103 | Token with Wiegand wire A Wiegand token essentially is comprised of a disk-like token body that has two substantially flat surfaces, one of the flat surface including a groove, for example, a circular groove, therein, and a Wiegand wire is embedded within the groove of the token... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5860503 | Reverse vending apparatus A reverse vending machine for empty cans, wherein a can (21) which is delivered by a machine user is inspected in a first section (1) of the machine with regard to special characteristics, where a non-accepted can is returned to the machine user, whilst a... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5761089 | Counterfeit document detection apparatus A document processing apparatus incorporates a counterfeit detection system for identifying counterfeit suspect documents on the basis of the magnetic characteristics of the documents. Each document is transported within the vicinity of a magnetic read he... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5737418 | Encryption of bill validation data A method for encrypting bill validation data generated by a bill validator is disclosed. Such data includes an inserted bill's denomination and country of origin as determined by sensors in the bill validator. Once such information is obtained, it is encr... | 04/07/1998 |
