Pitney Bowes Honors Robert Cordery as Most Prolific Inventor
June 26 2012 - 8:28AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) announced that Robert Cordery of
Monroe, Conn., was recently granted his 144th U.S. patent, making
him the most prolific inventor in Pitney Bowes history. The
milestone patent is a postage meter that conveniently processes
mail for multiple different postal carriers by using separate
corresponding secure postage vaults in the meter. In addition,
Cordery’s 145th patent was issued today, and the latest invention
provides a way to secure data being sent from a meter’s accounting
device to its printing device, to prevent counterfeit or altered
data from being processed and printed, without having to encrypt
the data.
“Bob has reached a company milestone in his 28-year R&D
career with Pitney Bowes,” said chairman, president and CEO Murray
Martin. “Bob, like so many other great inventors at Pitney Bowes,
has succeeded in fulfilling real market needs. His achievements
have contributed greatly to the innovative spirit at the heart of
Pitney Bowes’s success.”
Cordery played a key role in the evolution of cryptographically
secured postage evidencing at Pitney Bowes and currently
participates in ISO standards for 2D barcode verification. He is a
United States Patent and Trademark Office patent agent, was a judge
at this year’s Connecticut Invention Convention, and since 2009,
has served as a mentor to high school students in the Bridgeport
area through the WiMentor program. Cordery is also a member of a
variety of organizations, including the American Physical Society,
the IEEE Computer Society and the Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics. He has authored 18 science and engineering
related articles and is the recipient of 12 awards honoring him for
his work in the field, including one of the Pitney Bowes Inventors
of the Year in 1995, 2000 and 2007. Cordery holds a Ph.D. in
theoretical statistical physics from the University of Toronto, and
has held positions in the physics departments at Rutgers and
Northeastern Universities where he researched scaling properties of
materials near phase transitions and field theories. His current
research interests include modeling the state of a customer based
on communications, secure protocols and geo-demographic
modeling.
“Our customers depend on Pitney Bowes’s portfolio of digital and
physical communications channels to – first and foremost -- provide
security,” said Cordery. “Continuous innovation is key to meeting
the fast-paced requirements of a competitive marketplace, and I am
pleased to help our customers excel in this area,” said
Cordery.
About Pitney Bowes
Delivering more than 90 years of innovation, Pitney Bowes
provides software, hardware and services that integrate physical
and digital communications channels. Long known for making its
customers more productive, Pitney Bowes is increasingly helping
other companies grow their business through advanced customer
communications management. Pitney Bowes is a $5.3 billion company
with 29,000 employees worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is
a new opportunity™.
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