Bertrand J Haas

6886419, May 3, 2005

Jun 20, 2002

10/177493

Robert A. Cordery - Danbury CT, US
Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G01N001/00

7386323

The present invention is directed, in general to a mail piece and more particularly, a mail piece for collecting sample(s) of harmful materials from a mail processing device. The mail piece generally comprises: an air inlet, an air outlet and a collector. In an embodiment of the present invention, the mail pieces inlet is a material which causes sides of the mail piece to separate from one another when the mail piece is not under the pressure of a nip roller or similar grabbing device. In another embodiment of the present invention the collector is a filter present within the mail piece. In another embodiment of the present invention the collector is a filter or tacky material present inside the mail piece or on the out side of the mail piece. In another embodiment of the present invention, the mail piece is porous.

7170971, Jan 30, 2007

Mar 8, 2003

10/249005

Bertrand J. Haas - New Haven CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G01N 23/04

378 62, 378162

A method and system for safe mail transmission is provided. A letter is created with a marking compound that provides contrast in a detection system. The letter is sealed in a protective enclosure and scanned when received.

7434726, Oct 14, 2008

May 15, 2006

11/434331

Bradley R. Hammell - Farifield CT, US
Matthew J. Campagna - Ridgefield CT, US
Robert A. Cordery - Danbury CT, US
Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
Leon A. Pintsov - West Hartford CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 19/00

235379, 705 39

Methods and systems that prevent completion of postdated financial transactions until the specified future date is provided. A portion of the information necessary to complete a financial transaction is encrypted utilizing an identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme. The encryption key used to encrypt the information is associated with the date on which the transaction is authorized to be completed. The encrypted information is provided to the payee. The issuing bank provides a daily decryption key that allows decryption of information encrypted using the key associated with the corresponding date. Thus, only when the maturity date of the transaction has arrived will the payee or depositing bank be able to obtain the decryption key that will decrypt the encrypted information necessary to complete the transaction. Since the encrypted information can not be decrypted until the date associated with the encryption key, the financial transaction can not be completed until such date.

7438231, Oct 21, 2008

Oct 5, 2006

11/543496

Robert A. Cordery - Danbury CT, US
Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
Hongmei Gou - College Park MD, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06K 7/10

23546201, 23546211, 235437, 23546209, 2354621, 23546241, 382289, 382296

A method of printing a two-dimensional barcode by tilting the print head, which results in tilted barcode, and methods of detecting various types of attempts to forge the tilted barcode including: (i) a low level forgery that consists of a simple scan and reprint of the barcode, (ii) a low level forgery that consists of a reproduction (i. e. , a read and regeneration) and subsequent printing of the barcode using a printer with a non-tilted print head by a fraudster that is not aware of the tilt in the original barcode, and (iii) a higher level forgery by a fraudster that is aware of the tilt in the original barcode and that digitally tilts/shears an image of the barcode and prints the digitally tilted/sheared image using a printer with a non-tilted print head in an effort to mimic the tilt present in the legitimate barcode.

7441700, Oct 28, 2008

Nov 8, 2006

11/594449

Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
Brian A. Lemm - Monroe CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06F 17/00

235386, 705 12

Methods and systems for validating signatures on ballots sent through the mail that do not require significant amounts of hardware and/or software to perform are provided. The envelope for returning a ballot by mail includes a signature area in which the voter will sign and a reserved area in which no markings are provided. When the envelope is received at the registrar's office, the voter's identification is scanned and the voter's registration signature is retrieved from a registration database. The signature retrieved from the registration database is then provided in the reserved area. The signatures can then be compared directly on the envelope, without the need to image the voter's signature from the envelope and without the use of monitors to display the imaged and retrieved signatures.

7446891, Nov 4, 2008

Nov 24, 2003

10/720664

Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
Robert A. Cordery - Danbury CT, US
Claude Zeller - Monroe CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06K 15/00
G06F 1/00

358 115, 358 12, 358 19, 382103, 382232

The present invention is concerned with inclusion of a “fragile watermark” in an original printed document to aid in a determination whether a document under examination is an original or a copy. The watermark may be applied by making small tonal adjustments on a pixel block by pixel block basis in data used to generate the original document. Documents to be verified may then be examined on a block-by-block basis after scanning.

7467747, Dec 23, 2008

Dec 19, 2006

11/641179

Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
Bradley R. Hammell - Fairfield CT, US
Jay Reichelsheimer - Shelton CT, US
Robert A. Cordery - Danbury CT, US
Matthew J. Campagna - Ridgefield CT, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06K 19/06

235491, 235386, 235454, 283116, 229 71, 229300, 229301, 229303, 229304

Methods and systems that provide privacy of signatures on envelopes containing ballots are provided. The envelope for returning ballots includes a flap with a window that aligns with a signature area on the envelope. The window appears opaque under normal lighting conditions, but appears transparent when illuminated with light having a predetermined wavelength. A movable signature stub is positioned on top of the signature area. The voter signs the back of the envelope on the signature stub, thereby imprinting a signature on the signature area by transferring a material from the signature stub to the signature area, and moves the signature stub. The flap of the envelope is then sealed, thereby covering the voter's signature in the signature area with the window of the envelope flap. To read the signature, light having the predetermined wavelength can be directed onto the window, thereby rendering the window transparent and the signature visible.

7516892, Apr 14, 2009

Dec 12, 2006

11/637403

Bertrand Haas - New Haven CT, US
James A. Euchner - Waccabuc NY, US

Pitney Bowes Inc. - Stamford CT

G06K 17/00
G07C 13/00

235386, 235 51, 705 12

A voting system includes one or more voting machines provided at a specific location, wherein for each authorized voter one of the voting machines is adapted to record a first set of voting selections, and one or more validation machines provided at the specific location, wherein for each authorized voter one of the validation machines is adapted to present the first set of voting selections to the authorized voter and record a second set of voting selections only if the first set of voting selections is confirmed. A first vote tally is determined from the first set of voting selections of each authorized voter, and a second vote tally is determined from the second set of voting selections of each authorized voter. The first vote tally is then compared to the second vote tally, wherein a vote modification may have occurred if the tallies do not match.