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OPTICAL BUSINESS MACHINES

Overview
  • Total Patents
    29
About

OPTICAL BUSINESS MACHINES has a total of 29 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1972. It filed its patents most often in United States, Canada and France. Its main competitors in its focus markets computer technology, textiles and paper and electrical machinery and energy are SCHIMMERLING M, LEI HUANG and WELL CAT KK.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing OPTICAL BUSINESS MACHINESs patent filings in countries

Patent filings per year

Chart showing OPTICAL BUSINESS MACHINESs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Macneill John H 6
#2 Holmes Thomas G 4
#3 Lidkea Harrison B 4
#4 Seib Kenneth L 3
#5 Willey Ronald R 3
#6 Bellinger 1
#7 Macneill J 1
#8 Neill John H Mac 1
#9 James E 1
#10 Willey R 1

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
GB2065562A Solid character printer
US4066998A Method and apparatus for discriminating between characters in character recognition systems
US3944977A Adaptive and programmed threshold level detection arrangement
GB1454813A Method and apparatus for recognising handwritten characters in an optical character recognition machine
CH581867A5 Character reader scanning system - uses line of light whose length corresponds to max. length of characters and of given width
IE38315B1 Improved optical scan arrangement for optical character recognition
US3848228A Visual display of unrecognizable characters in optical character recognition machines
US3872433A Optical character recognition system
US3812459A Opticscan arrangement for optical character recognition systems