Patents

I'm actually pretty strongly opposed to software patents -- they apparently exist for no other purpose than to be abused. However, I worked at an R&D lab, and patents are one their main products. This list would give you a pretty good idea of what I worked on there, except that they're all written in deliberately obfuscatory legalese.

(By the way, if you just search for IN/savitzky, many of the hits you'll get will belong to my father.)

Results of Search in US Patent Collection db for:
IN/Savitzky AND AN/Ricoh: 42 patents.
Hits 1 through 42 out of 42

PAT. NO.Title
1 9,734,465 Distributed workflow-enabled system
2 9,244,149 Applications for geographically coded access points
3 9,082,105 Paper-like forms processing system and method
4 8,996,483 Method and apparatus for recording associations with logs
5 8,885,832 Secure peer-to-peer distribution of an updatable keyring
6 8,838,760 Workflow-enabled provider
7 8,713,144 Workflow-enabled client
8 8,711,034 Geographically self-labeling access points
9 8,572,695 Method for applying a physical seal authorization to documents in electronic workflows
10 8,504,624 Stroke and image aggregation and analytics
11 8,484,176 Multi-provider forms processing system with retry upon failure
12 8,412,946 Trustworthy timestamps and certifiable clocks using logs linked by cryptographic hashes
13 8,380,866 Techniques for facilitating annotations
14 8,265,652 Geographic tagging of network access points
15 8,171,117 Workflow manager for a distributed system
16 8,089,405 Applications for geographically coded access points
17 8,072,284 Split delay-line oscillator for secure data transmission
18 8,046,328 Secure pre-caching through local superdistribution and key exchange
19 8,006,094 Trustworthy timestamps and certifiable clocks using logs linked by cryptographic hashes
20 7,970,169 Secure stamping of multimedia document collections
21 7,856,153 Displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time
22 7,757,162 Document collection manipulation
23 7,739,583 Multimedia document sharing method and apparatus
24 7,703,002 Method and apparatus for composing multimedia documents
25 7,672,864 Generating and displaying level-of-interest values
26 7,580,164 Document separator pages
27 7,546,528 Stamp sheets
28 7,536,638 Action stickers for identifying and processing stored documents
29 7,451,236 Document distribution and storage system
30 7,430,714 Document storage system including a user interface for associating documents into groups
31 7,356,611 Method and apparatus for permissions based active document workflow
32 7,313,340 Paper control of document processing
33 6,691,299 Object-oriented communications framework system with support for multiple remote machine types
34 6,658,624 Method and system for processing documents controlled by active documents with embedded instructions
35 6,571,271 Networked appliance for recording, storing and serving digital images
36 6,438,617 Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types
37 6,430,740 Object-oriented communications framework system with support for multiple remote machine types
38 6,260,076 Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types
39 6,012,083 Method and apparatus for document processing using agents to process transactions created based on document content
40 5,918,051 Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types
41 5,832,264 Object-oriented communications framework system with support for multiple remote machine types
42 5,732,261 Method of using an object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types