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BELL & HOWELL LLC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    60
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    43,847
  • Filing trend
    ⇩ 50.0%
About

BELL & HOWELL LLC has a total of 60 patent applications. It decreased the IP activity by 50.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 2004. It filed its patents most often in EPO (European Patent Office), United States and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization). Its main competitors in its focus markets packaging and shipping, control and machines are NEOPOST BV, BOWE BELL & HOWELL CO and HADEWE BV.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing BELL & HOWELL LLCs patent filings in countries

Patent filings per year

Chart showing BELL & HOWELL LLCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Bowers Brian 13
#2 Middelberg Neal J 13
#3 Adcock Craig S 10
#4 Johnson Richard 9
#5 Paul Mark Gerard 9
#6 Conard Walter S 8
#7 Murdock Todd 8
#8 Kracht Aaron A 7
#9 Zuech Joseph 6
#10 Heilman Robin L 6

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
WO2019241727A1 Secure storage and retrieval systems and methods
CA3085571A1 Overhead reverse divert systems and methods
WO2019200096A1 Systems and methods for providing gaps in article or package processing
WO2018125745A1 Displaying targeted messages on display screens of automated storage and retrieval terminals
US2019160856A1 Methods and systems to create a mailpiece with an inline buckle folder
US2017259585A1 Assemblies, systems, and methods for franking one or more sequential mailpiece on a high speed mail sorter
US2017243038A1 Methods and systems to reconcile postal authority mail piece error reports with data records collected during mail piece processing prior to delivery by the post authority
US2016263623A1 Methods and systems for parcel one pass labeling and sorting for presort qualification
US2016332467A1 Assemblies, systems, and methods for applying postage indicia to one or more mailpiece on a high speed mail sorter
EP3012203A1 Devices, systems, and methods for automatically printing and applying labels to products
US2016052659A1 Devices, systems, and methods for automatically printing and applying labels to products
US2016063770A1 Systems, methods, and computer readable media for transferring data from delivery items to labels for application of the labels onto the delivery items
EP2990366A1 Systems, methods, and computer readable media for sheet registration in a tractorless sheet processing device using at least one existing sheet feature
US2015130126A1 Method and system for synchronizing items using position compensation
US2014358950A1 Method and system for using mobile phone numbers to uniquely identify mail recipients and preferred medium for delivery
US2014096900A1 Method and system to print and apply labels to products
EP2692672A2 Method and system for mail item turnover
US2013294879A1 Method and system for semi-automated tray loading device
EP2548827A2 Method for feeding inserts by a rotary gripper system comprising synchronied initialization.
EP2327563A2 Integrated return mail-piece and method and system to manufacture it in a wrapping document processing system