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Article: Kentucky Inventors Develop Print Media Orientation Detection Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- March 12, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- Keith Bryan Hardin, Mark Stephen Underwood and Terry Lee Wells, all from Lexington, Ky., and Chris Anthony Burdette of Richmond, Ky., have developed an apparatus and methods of detecting print media orientation.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency signature on a cut sheet of print media is detected by a radio frequency interrogating device to determine whether the print media is properly oriented. The leading edge or trailing edge of the print media is detected by one or more print media sensors. A print controller can note the time and cause the radio frequency interrogating device to detect the radio frequency signature at a ...