US Patent Issued to Pitney Bowes on April 21 for "System and method for generating postage" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,712, issued on April 21, was assigned to Pitney Bowes Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for generating postage" was invented by Frederick W. Ryan Jr. (Oxford, Conn.), Tarunya Goel (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Paresh Sahasrabudhe (North York, Canada), William Rodriguez (Stratford, Conn.), Chintapalli S. Reddy (Trumbull, Conn.) and Henry Rogando (S. Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A postage generating system and method that allows for the generation of postage without the use of a PSD, while still maintaining the necessary data integrity and non-repudiation aspects. The cryptographic and accounting functions are performed ...