Positive identification method and structure
First Claim
1. An identification means adapted for use in living bodies and more particularly to be embedded in a cavity in a highly mineralized portion of the body comprising a carrier made up of a substrate of relatively hard inert material having a high melting point at least as high as the highly mineralized portion of the body into which it is to be embedded;
- an etchable layer of an inert material on said substrate and including identifying intelligence etched thereon, said identification means including locating means.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method to assist in the identification of a living body which comprises selecting a carrier, transcribing information as to the identity of the body on the carrier, and fixing the carrier to a hard mineralized portion of the body. The structure includes a miniaturized carrier of relatively inert material and having identifying intelligence thereon, wherein the carrier is adapted to be fixed or otherwise embedded on hard mineralized tissue of the body.
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27 Claims
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1. An identification means adapted for use in living bodies and more particularly to be embedded in a cavity in a highly mineralized portion of the body comprising a carrier made up of a substrate of relatively hard inert material having a high melting point at least as high as the highly mineralized portion of the body into which it is to be embedded;
- an etchable layer of an inert material on said substrate and including identifying intelligence etched thereon, said identification means including locating means.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13)
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10. A method for providing positive identification of a living body comprising:
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a. providing a hard, highly mineralized portion of the body with a cavity, b. placing identifying intelligence on a radiographically detectable carrier, c. embedding the carrier in the cavity whereby the carrier is completely within the mineralized portion of the body such as to lend a high degree of heat and impact protection to the carrier. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27)
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14. A method for positive identification of a living person, including the steps of selecting a carrier of relatively inert material and of miniaturized dimensions, applying identification intelligence corresponding to the person on said carrier, selecting a tooth of the person and excavating a suitable cavity in said tooth, locating said miniaturized carrier in the cavity formed in said tooth, closing said cavity, ensuring that the carrier is detectable radigraphically;
- in subsequent necessity of identification taking an X-ray of the person'"'"'s teeth, detecting the carrier by X-ray and locating the tooth in which the carrier is embedded, retrieving the carrier from said tooth and reading the identifying information from the carrier.
- View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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25. A method for providing positive identification of a living body comprising:
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a. forming a cavity in a tooth of the living body, b. placing identifying intelligence on a radiographically detectable carrier, c. inserting the carrier in the cavity of the tooth, d. covering the carrier within the cavity.
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