Label and method of making

• US 20040153476A1
• Filed: 01/21/2004
• Published: 08/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David L. Patton, Loretta E. Allen, Peter A. Frosig, Robert C. Bryant, William H. Simpson
• Original Assignee: David L. Patton, Loretta E. Allen, Peter A. Frosig, Robert C. Bryant, William H. Simpson
• Inventors: Patton, David L., Allen, Loretta E., Simpson, William H., Frosig, Peter A., Bryant, Robert C.
• Application Number:
  US10/762,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20040153476A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 2/325 by selective transfer of ink from ink carrier, e.g. from ink ribbon or sheet
• CPC Class Codes: B41M 7/0027 using protective coatings or layers by lamination or by fusion of the coatings or layers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

A method of providing an image on a media having a image-receiving layer and a protective overlayer, comprising the steps of providing an image on said image-receiving and providing machine-readable indicia on said protective overlayer by varying the temperature of a thermal head used to apply said protective overlayer.

Claims

1. A computer program that when programmed in a computer causes the computer to provide the steps of:

a) forming a 1^st machine-readable indicia in an image layer on a media; and

b) forming a 2^nd machine-readable indicia in a protective overlayer that is identical in content to, and in register with said 1^st machine-readable indicia.

2. A method of reading a media having indicia formed in a protective overlayer, said indicia having a physical topography that represents a machine-readable code comprising the steps of:

a) reading the physical topography of said indicia by a machine so as to obtain information encoded therein; and

b) interpreting said encoded information so as to obtain said information.