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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8123114 | Hidden-code voting and marking systems An improved paper ballot voting system allows voters to verify that their ballots are correctly counted and provide substantiating evidence if they are not. Codes are revealed to voters by the act of marking the ballot during voting and voters can check that these c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8061589 | Electronic voting system A method is described that involves creating a private key and a public key cryptographic key pair, generating a unique and random identifier for a voter's vote and accepting an election vote from said voter. The vote and identifier are electronically signed with th... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8038053 | Voting apparatus with secure ballot box assembly The invention relates to a ballot box assembly for securely storing a paper ballot generated by an interactive user terminal includes a housing, a ballot storage chamber, an aperture and a drive assembly. The housing is provided for holding the ballot generated by t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8006894 | Save democracy election system An election system is disclosed that is immune to rigging, costs only 5 to 20 percent of that of prior art e-voting systems, and entirely eliminates wasted voter time spent standing in line. The method used in the new system is to print each separate office or propo... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7878390 | Relative ranking and discovery of items based on subjective attributes Relatively ranking items based on subjective attributes of the items, and for discovering these relatively ranked items. A voting server as described may include a voting application that receives an indication of an item of interest to a customer. Based on preferen... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7861918 | Voting system and method Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a voter to vote at any single official polling place in the state (jurisdiction) even if it lies outside the boundaries of his local voting location (division of the jurisdiction). The systems and methods disclosed also... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7857200 | Save democracy election system An election system that is immune to rigging, costs only 5 to 20 percent of that of prior art e-voting systems, and entirely eliminates wasted voter time spent standing in line. The method used in the new system is to print each separate office or proposition on a s... | 12/28/2010 |
| RE40449 | Auto-verifying voting system and voting method A voting system provides for a computer-prepared and computer-printed election ballot generated by input from the voter, and provides for auto-verification whereby the voter has the opportunity and the responsibility to inspect the computer-printed ballot with his o... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406480 | Automated voter registration and tabulation system A system and method of registering voters and tabulating an election is provided. A voter database is maintained with a record of each eligible voter comprising at least one voter characteristic. Based on the at least one voter characteristic, a set of positions and... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395964 | Secure voting system Methods, systems and program products for securely voting by providing a secure voting module in communication with a voting device. A voter signs onto the voting device using a unique voter identification, and the voter's voting selections are written to the voting... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7387244 | Electronic voting system and method with voter verifiable real-time audit log A voting system and method with a voter verifiable real-time audit log is disclosed. The voting system includes at least one voting terminal operable to record a plurality of poll worker actions and a plurality of voter actions taken at the voting terminal. The voti... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7360702 | Verifiable voting system A method of processing votes in an election includes receiving a voter identity for a voter, receiving a vote set for the voter, providing a phrase to the voter based on the received vote set, generating a unique receipt number for the voter and providing the receip... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337964 | Method and apparatus for ink-based electronic voting The present invention is an ink-based electronic voting apparatus that generates a paper ballot for every voter. The voter marks a ballot with a probe as he/she would with a conventional ink-based system. In one embodiment, the paper ballot is situated underneath th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340058 | Low-overhead secure information processing for mobile gaming and other lightweight device applications Cryptography-based methods and apparatus for secure information processing are disclosed that are particularly efficient in terms of the computational resources required, and thus implementable in mobile telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) or other lightw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321858 | Selection of individuals from a pool of candidates in a competition system An integrated highly automated competition system allows for selection of one or more competition winners. Documents can be submitted electronically or by hardcopy. Document submissions are checked against databases to determine duplicate existence by a variety of i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7306148 | Advanced voting system and method According to one embodiment of the present invention, an advanced voting system includes one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices display ballot questions to the voter and receive interactive voter selections from the voter. A ballot generato... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7284700 | Advanced voting system and method In one embodiment, an advanced voting system includes one or more computing devices operable to receive instructions from a voter to adjust a color of a screen of a computing device. The color adjustment instructions are indicated by the voter's selection of non-ded... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7270269 | Secure electronic voting device A secure device for electronic voting employs a write-once vote-recording medium. The medium has an initial writing mode in which data can be written but not read and a subsequent reading mode whereby data can be read but writing is permanently disabled. Once switch... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7243846 | Computer enhanced voting system including voter verifiable, custom printed ballots imprinted to the specifications of each voter An apparatus and method for creating and recording both an electronic and printed ballot for each voter during voting. The system can employ a variety of vote selection techniques, all of which can lead to the generation of an electronic tally of the vote in additio... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240835 | Integrated vote by mail processing system A modular integrated software and hardware suite can accept data exported from a voter registration database corresponding to requests for mail ballots, sort the data as necessary for ballot preparation, create a road map for ballot mailing preparation, provide for ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7222787 | Ballot marking system and apparatus utilizing single print head A system and apparatus for marking a pre-printed paper ballot which can be either hand-marked by a voter, or machine-marked by the apparatus. If the ballot is to be machine marked, the ballot is inserted into the marking apparatus and candidate selections are presen... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216807 | Automated processing of by-mail ballots A ballot packaging system is automated to place ballots in envelopes. The ballots are printed by an assigned type according to voter information stored in a database. Each ballot includes a first printed indicia allocated to the ballot type, but this identifier does... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210617 | Secret-ballot systems with voter-verifiable integrity An election system provides, in one example, each voter with multiple physical “layers” that the voter is able to choose between. The voter takes part of the layers as a kind of receipt and the other layers are retained and/or destroyed by the system. The actual... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7197167 | Registration apparatus and method, as for voting Apparatus and method for registration comprises a computer and a server in communication via a network, an intranet and/or the Internet, means for entry of data into the computer, and a signature or biometric digitizer including coupling software for directly enteri... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7172118 | System and method for overcoming decision making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient to communication and decision making errors, and which are provided wi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7163147 | Ballot marking system and apparatus utilizing dual print heads A system and apparatus for marking a pre-printed paper ballot which can be either hand-marked by a voter, or machine-marked by the apparatus. If the ballot is to be machine marked, the ballot is inserted into the marking apparatus and candidate selections are presen... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152792 | Voting apparatus and method using personal computers The disclosure is for an apparatus and method for voting that are based on personal computers. All data and software, including the operating system, voting software, and original ballot information are on a single portable data storage medium, such as a diskette. D... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152156 | Secure internet voting system with bootable disk An Internet voting system is provided with security against malicious software by using a bootable CD ROM to boot voter client machines for use in elections. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7134606 | Identifier for use with digital paper An identification system includes several sheets formed of digital paper each having a unique identifier on a writing surface thereof. Each digital paper may have a form printed on the writing surface. Data representing the form and the location thereof relative to ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134597 | System for handicapped access to voting ballots A voting system that allows voters who may be blind or otherwise disabled to use election ballots without needing to see the ballot. The present invention provides a balloting system which presents and holds an election ballot while allowing a voter to cast and insp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128263 | System and method for audio interface and navigation for generating a paper record A system and method for providing users with visual, English language comprehension, cognitive, or other limitations an intuitive audio interface and navigation method for use in automated systems which generates an official paper record of the session. A particular... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7111782 | Systems and methods for providing security in a voting machine The invention provides systems and methods for ensuring security for a voting machine. The voting machine can include a display screen upon which numerous election choices are displayed for selection by a voter. A detachable printer can also be provided that is adap... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7090128 | Mobile electronic newsstand Methods and apparatus for collecting documents that are electronic newspapers, magazines, and books into sets (one or more objects) and distributing them to passenger vehicles. Once distributed to the vehicles, individual documents of the document sets are distribut... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077313 | Electronic voting method for optically scanned ballot A method for reading ballots comprises reading/imaging each ballot transported on a transport path including reading/imaging orientation indicia and a jurisdiction identifier thereof and voting selections marked thereon; determining from the orientation indicia the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7054829 | Method and system for validating votes A method and system for validating the creation and submission of absentee ballots is provided. An authentication/validation mark is generated and printed on an absentee ballot and/or the envelope that contains the absentee ballot. The authentication/validation mark... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049956 | Method and apparatus for disabled access to polling places A portable kit for use at a polling place to ease access of a disabled person to voting facilities. The portable kit includes a case containing a base, a collapsible post for mounting on the base and an activation switch mountable on the post and having a radio tran... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047196 | System and method of voice recognition near a wireline node of a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery A method and system of speech recognition presented by a back channel from multiple user sites within a network supporting cable television and/or video delivery is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises ans system and method of using a back ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042596 | Multifunction apparatus and method of identifying device attached thereto Disclosed is method of identifying a device that has been connected to a multifunction apparatus to which any device of a plurality of types can be selectively attached, wherein the method makes it possible to prevent malfunction if a device is attached or connected... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036730 | Electronic voting apparatus, system and method The voting apparatus, system and method of the invention provides at least two independently means for recording and counting votes, i.e. one associated with the voting apparatus and one separate therefrom. A preferred voting apparatus, system and method provides tr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032821 | Precinct voting system An electronic voting system includes a controller and one or more voting stations. The voting stations each have a liquid crystal display that is electronically configurable to present voters with ballot information. A mobile ballot box includes memory storage that ... | 04/25/2006 |
