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Neopost Technologies Assigned Patent
[July 09, 2013]

Neopost Technologies Assigned Patent


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- Neopost Technologies, Bagneux, France, has been assigned a patent (8,478,695) developed by Mark E. Simcik, Bloomfield, Conn., and Allen A. Crowf, Prospect, Conn., for a "technique for effectively generating postage indicia using a postal security device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a franking system, a postal security device (PSD) is used to account for postage dispensation, and generate digital signatures for inclusion in postage indicia to authenticate same. In accordance with the invention, the PSD includes multiple crypto processors which participate in franking transactions and generate the digital signatures in a multiplexed manner. Each crypto processor verifies the accounting of postage dispensation leading to and including the transactions in which the crypto processor participates. In addition, the crypto processors re-create transaction records and store them therein in a distributed manner." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2007 (11/703,772). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=84,78,695.PN.&OS=PN/84,78,695&RS=PN/84,78,695 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.



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