Granted Patent
Utility
US 5,657,430 · App. 08/612,037
Software-based procedure for conversion of a scalable font character bitmap to a gray level bitmap
Inventors:
Marcus A. Smith, Brian E. Hoffmann, Jeffrey L. Trask
Patented Case
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Granted: Aug 12, 1997
Filed: Mar 7, 1996
Inventors
Marcus A. Smith
Brian E. Hoffmann
Jeffrey L. Trask
Assignee (at issue)
Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P.
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