REMOVABLE POSTAGE METER HAVING AN INDICIA COVER

Patent №

US 4,876,956

Granted

1989-10-31

Filed 1987

Owner

PITNEY BOWES INC., WALTER H. WHEELER, JR., DR., STAMFORD, CT A CORP. OF DE

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07114363

A postage meter module is removable from the mailing machine base. In order to protect the print die, a shutter is provided to cover the die. The cover can be moved to expose the die only when the meter is installed on an appropriate meter base. At all other times the shutter is locked in position to cover the print die.

PlanningG07B 17/00193G07B 17/00508G07B 2017/00233G07B 2017/00548

AI classification

Planning0.67
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

PITNEY BOWES INC., WALTER H. WHEELER, JR., DR., STAMFORD, CT A CORP. OF DE

assignment · 48010083

Assignors

RILEY, GILBERT N., HOLODNAK, RICHARD S., MALIN, RICHARD A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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