Marc J Fagan

US Patent:

8004717, Aug 23, 2011

Filed:

Apr 30, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/112248

Inventors:

Frank W. Delfer - Granite Bay CA, US
Charles B. Clupper - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Marc J. Fagan - Folsom CA, US
Brett Jay Flickner - Folsom CA, US
Matthew Thomas Leettola - El Dorado Hills CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

H04N 1/405
B65H 5/22

US Classification:

358 304, 358 312, 271 314, 271 305, 271 306

Abstract:

A printed sheet handling system and method for use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted pages web printed pages to produce document sets includes: a printer to print LPEE formatted paired document pages printed in 1 to N order and face up on a first half of the web and printed in N to 1 order and face down on a second half of the continuous web; a slitter that divides the LPEE formatted printed web into two streams of sheets, with one in 1 to N order and the other in N to 1 order; collecting both streams into separate stacks; flipping the N to 1 stack of sheets; and then withdrawing sheets from the tops of both stacks for cutting into pages, collating, and assembly into correctly aligned and page number-sequenced document sets.

US Patent:

8172090, May 8, 2012

Filed:

Aug 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/198788

Inventors:

Charles Preston - Orangevale CA, US
Marc Fagan - Folsom CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output West, LLC - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

B07C 5/00

US Classification:

209552, 209584, 209659, 209900

Abstract:

A system and method of sorting documents utilizing an algorithm or routine that alternates an order of documents with smallest sheet count documents followed by largest sheet count documents in order to optimizes a document throughput of an inserter based on a maximum speed that documents can be collated and accumulated and an algorithm or routine for optimizing the document throughput of a dual sheet cutter by grouping even sheet count documents together on evenly paired sheet boundaries within a mailing group of printed documents, with or without the use of dynamic motion control of the inserter.

US Patent:

8235641, Aug 7, 2012

Filed:

Feb 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/037790

Inventors:

Frank W. Delfer - Granite Bay CA, US
Charles B. Clupper - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Marc J. Fagan - Folsom CA, US
Brett Jay Flickner - Folsom CA, US
Matthew Thomas Leettola - El Dorado Hills CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

B65H 1/00

US Classification:

41422213, 41422302, 414349, 280 4717, 280 472

Abstract:

For use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted document pages printed on a continuous web of material, an apparatus and method of use for assembling correctly page-sequenced document sets that utilizes a slitter for separating the LPEE formatted document pages into two separate streams of continuous sheets that are loaded onto a document transfer cart that has two side-by-side and hinged-together document receiving trays, for each tray a removable bottom support plate assembly having casters on the lower portion of one of the bottom support plates, a top document delivery roller for each tray, a central hinge connecting the two trays to each another, support rack pivot rods, a handle secured to each tray, and cart transfer wheels.

US Patent:

8387888, Mar 5, 2013

Filed:

Jan 5, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/652622

Inventors:

Daniel M. Saldana - Carmichael CA, US
Marc Jeffrey Fagan - Folsom CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output West, LLC. - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

G06K 19/05

US Classification:

235494, 23546225

Abstract:

A reduced-ink barcode is disclosed in which the barcode has printed dot foreground and non-printed background element regions assembled into a detectable pattern on a document and is printed with each of the printed dot foreground element regions having less than a maximum printed dot density.

US Patent:

8416450, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

Feb 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/037654

Inventors:

Frank W. Delfer - Granite Bay CA, US
Charles B. Clupper - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Marc J. Fagan - Folsom CA, US
Brett Jay Flickner - Folsom CA, US
Matthew Thomas Leettola - El Dorado Hills CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

G06K 15/22
G06K 15/00
B41C 1/00
H04N 1/40
H04N 1/387
B65H 23/04

US Classification:

358 13, 358 14, 358 118, 358 332, 358 331, 358450, 242615

Abstract:

For use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted document pages printed on a continuous web of material, a system and method for assembling correctly page-sequenced document sets that utilizes a slitter for separating the LPEE formatted document pages into two separate streams of continuous sheets, a turn-bar assembly positioned to flip only one of the continuous sheet streams, a cutter that produces separates pages from both the flipped stream of sheets and non-flipped stream of sheets, a collator for collating all of the separate pages into the correctly page-sequenced document sets, and a controller for tracking the LPEE formatted document pages and overseeing the assembly of the correctly page-sequenced document sets.

US Patent:

8437014, May 7, 2013

Filed:

Apr 30, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/112744

Inventors:

Frank W. Delfer - Granite Bay CA, US
Charles B. Clupper - El Dorado Hills CA, US
Marc J. Fagan - Folsom CA, US
Brett Jay Flickner - Folsom CA, US
Matthew Thomas Leettola - El Dorado Hills CA, US
John Lawrence Arndt - El Dorado Hills CA, US

Assignee:

DST Output - El Dorado Hills CA

International Classification:

B42B 2/00
B65H 20/30
B65H 23/04
B65H 43/08

US Classification:

358 112, 270 5209, 270 5208, 270 5212, 2261183, 2261961, 226 21

Abstract:

A printed sheet handling system and method for use with lazy-portrait narrow-end to narrow-end (LPEE) formatted pages web printed pages to produce document sets includes: a printer to print LPEE formatted paired document pages on a continuous web; a slitter that divides the LPEE formatted printed web into two streams of sheets; collecting each stream in separate rolls of continuous sheets; withdrawing the stream of continuous sheets from a top of one roll, rotating the second roll 180, and withdrawing the stream of continuous sheets from a bottom of the second roll; transferring each of the unwound streams of continuous sheets to a cutter that cuts each stream into individual pages; and collating the individual pages into correctly aligned and page number-sequenced document sets.

US Patent:

20130271521, Oct 17, 2013

Filed:

Mar 4, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/784338

Inventors:

Marc Jeffrey Fagan - Folsom CA, US

International Classification:

G06K 1/12
G06K 19/06

US Classification:

347 14, 235494

Abstract:

A reduced-ink barcode is disclosed in which the barcode has printed dot foreground and non-printed background element regions assembled into a detectable pattern on a document and is printed with each of the printed dot foreground element regions having less than a maximum printed dot density.

US Patent:

58299530, Nov 3, 1998

Filed:

May 1, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/641503

Inventors:

Robert L. Fehringer - Camino CA
Christian E. Tammi - El Dorado Hills CA
Marc J. Fagan - Davis CA
Daniel M. Saldana - Rancho Cordova CA
Charles E. Preston - Orangevale CA
Jonathan D. Emigh - Somerset CA
Steve Johnson - Antelope CA
Chris Jones - Folsom CA

Assignee:

International Billing Services, Inc. - Rancho Cordova CA

International Classification:

B65H 4100

US Classification:

4147891

Abstract:

A billing statement system comprising a billing statement having a plurality of sheets or pages of multiple lengths or which are otherwise of multiple sizes and/or shapes. The billing statement preferably comprises a plurality of sheets wherein at least one sheet is of different, generally larger, size than the other sheets, and in which the larger sheet has a first region with a consumer's mailing address on one side and a provider's mailing address on the reverse side, and a second region which contains detail or summary information on the charges due. The billing statement system includes a collator apparatus for collating billing statements having a plurality of sheets of multiple lengths, and a folder apparatus for folding collated billing statements having a plurality of sheets of multiple lengths.