Information card

• US 3,245,697 A
• Filed: 01/13/1964
• Issued: 04/12/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Warren J. Nugent
• Original Assignee: Warren J. Nugent
• Inventors: Nugent, Warren J.
• Application Number:
  US04/337,380
• Time in Patent Office: 820 Days
• US Class Current: 283/82
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/23 Identity cards
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/305 Associated digital information record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/309 Photographs
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/313 Fingerprints
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/351 Translucent or partly translucent parts, e.g. windows
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/369 Magnetised or magnetisable materials
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/387 absorbing or reflecting ultraviolet light
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/47 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/10 at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards verification of coded identity or credit cards in mechanisms actuated by them G07F7/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4037 Remote solvency checks
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/08 by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means without personal verification means G07F7/02
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/086 by passive credit-cards adapted therefor, e.g. constructive particularities to avoid counterfeiting, e.g. by inclusion of a physical or chemical security-layer for security documents G07D7/00; for the reading of record-carriers in general G06K7/00; for the design of coded credit-cards G06K19/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/904 Credit card

Claims

1. A CARD. TO ENABLE THE BEARER TO BE IDENTIFIED WHEN DIGITAL DATA ON THE CARD IS READ WITH ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT COMPRISING A PAIR OF LIGHT TRANSPARENT SHEETS HAVING LAMINATED BETWEEN THEM GENERALLY LIGHT OPAQUE SHEET MEANS TO FORM SAID CARD AS A SHEET LIKE MEMBER HAVING A GENERALLY LIGHT OPAQUE APPEARANCE, SAID LIGHT OPAQUE SHEET MEANS INCLUDING A MULTIPLICITY OF DISCRETE, SMALL, DOT LIKE, LIGHT TRANSPARENT AREAS, EACH OF SAID AREAS BEING LIGHT TRANSPARENT FROM ONE SIDE OF THE LIGHT OPAQUE SHEET MEANS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LIGHT OPAQUE SHEET MEANS, EACH OF SAID DOT-LIKE AREAS BEING SUFFICIENTLY SMALL TO MAINTAIN THE GENERALLY LIGHT OPAQUE APPEARANCE OF THE CARD BUT BEING OF SUFFICIENT SIZE TO ENABLE DIGITAL DATA INDICATIONS TO BE DERIVED IN RESPONSE TO LIGHT FROM A SOURCE IN SAID EQUIPMENT BEING TRANSMITTED FROM ONE SIDE OF THE CARD TO A DETECTOR IN SAID EQUIPMENT LOCATED AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CARD, SAID AREA ONLY BEING LOCATED AT PREDETERMINED DISCRETE LOCATIONS ON THE LIGHT OPAQUE SHEET MEANS TO INDICATE CODED DIGITAL DATA INDICATIVE OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CARD BEARER, THE AREAS ON EACH OF SAID CARDS BEING LOCATED AT DIFFERENT DISCRETE LOCATIONS TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENT CARD BEARERS, SAID CARD FURTHER INCLUDING PERMANENT FRAUD PREVENTING INDICIA LOCATED IN NON-OVERLAPPING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AREAS, SAID PERMANENT INDICIA BEING LOCATED AT THE SAME REGION ON EACH OF SAID CARDS TO PROVIDE AN INDICATION OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF SAID CARDS.