Patent №
US 4,739,486
Granted
1988-04-19
Filed 1985
Owner
PITNEY BOWES INC., A DE CORP.
Lab
—
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
06729395
A method and associated apparatus for modifying a firmware variable in an electronic postage meter, comprising the steps of storing a program for operation of the electronic postage meter, a resident memory containing firmware variables, a communication means in the stored program which allows external data to be entered in the program to change the firmware variable in accordance with the external data.
AI classification
AI hardware0.97
Natural language0.01
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Ownership
PITNEY BOWES INC., A DE CORP.
assignment · 44010542
Assignors
SODERBERG, JOHN H., DUWEL, EDWARD C.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.
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