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Article: Florida Inventors Develop Toner Cartridge with Microcontroller
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 24, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 24 -- Steven Miller of Pinellas Park, Fla., and Herman Schnell of Coral Springs, Fla., have developed a toner cartridge with a microcontroller.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "toner cartridge having a microcontroller configured to store data necessary to create a message authentication code required by the printer. The microcontroller contains data values capable of generating acceptable message authentication codes (MACs) for a plurality of printers. The microcontroller recognizes a variety of unique parameters displayed by the printer's processor to identify the printer being used. Once the printer is identified, the ...