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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6958150 | Reduction of adipose tissue The amount of adipose tissue, including lipomas, at selected locations in the body is reduced by introducing collagenase or collagenase plus another proteinase into the tissue. ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6956481 | Metal screened electronic labelling system A metal screened (13) electronic labelling system having at least one information bearing electronic coded label including a label coil (12) and an interrogator including a transmitter coil (9). The system relies on a magnetic field coupling lin... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6851607 | Secured method for monitoring the transfer of value units in a chip card gambling system A secure system and method for the transfer of value units between a plurality of gambling cards (CJ) and a plurality of gambling machines (200, 300). Each machine has a transcriber (210, 310) to debit value units of the gambling cards. The machines ar... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6794727 | Single receiving side contactless electronic module continuous manufacturing process A process for continuous manufacture of electronic modules (6) including the steps of providing a microcircuit and antenna receiving side on a continuous strip (8) and module surface areas; arranging, e.g., by printing, on the module surface area, a pl... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6726959 | Process for fabricating a coating layer on a portable support, particularly a card format support, and portable support provided with such coating layer The invention relates to a process for fabricating a coating layer (8) and a portable support (1) provided with such layer, comprising a support body (3) provided on one of its sides (4) with said coating layer (8). The process of ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6666382 | Plug-in removable card, forming a chip card reader for a micro-computer Releasable PCMCIA cards (10) suitable for plugging into the slot (12) of a micro-computer (14). To enable the releasable plug-in card (10) to be used as a smart card reader, it is altered in such a way that it can receive a smart card (22). For this purpo... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6647065 | Process aimed at the extraction of electrical signals, without breaking a line pair Process aimed at the extraction of electrical signals emanating from the two ends of a two wire link between two installations exchanging data, wherein a probe comprising an attenuation cell is plugged in on either side of a break point situated on the li... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6589119 | Data and value unit transfer system on slot machine network A data transfer network with at least one slot machine (200) having a value unit transfer element (300) and a data transfer link (123) connected to a central processing unit (1). Between each slot machine and the transfer link is a device (400) that provi... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6499647 | Method for producing contact between two circuit layers separated by an insulating layer The invention relates to the methods which make it possible to establish contacts between two conductive layers separated by an insulating layer. It consists in pressing the complex (101) formed by these three layers between a sonotrode (105) excited by ultras... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6483206 | Electric power supply system for simplifying the architecture of power and air-conditioning installations A power supply system for uninterruptedly sensitive equipment having a supply interface with a local power line, e.g., of 230V/50 Hz. It has downstream of a high voltage/low voltage transformation station, a direct connection towards at least one Uninterr... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6459791 | Public key cryptography method The invention features a public key cryptography method based on the discrete logarithm which computes a value Gk mod p. Two solutions are proposed to reduce the number of multiplications, one consisting in generating "hollow" k exponents with ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6452563 | Antenna arrangement in a metallic environment The invention concerns an arrangement for an antenna (A) having the general shape of a loop, directly in the proximity of at least a metallic element (10). The invention is characterised in that each metallic element (10) comprises an orifice (18) arrange... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6415142 | Prepaid smart card in a GSM based wireless telephone network and method for operating prepaid cards A smart card, which in normal use in a network allows the transfer of goods/services to a user of the card from a network operator by subtracting prepaid units of value stored in the card. The card has an embedded integrated circuit with a serial number u... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6366929 | Service control and management system A service control and management systems, and more specifically a system to manage hourly working services, that has service beneficiaries' and/or service providers' smart cards, smart card readers at service sites, and a central server capable of communi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6367014 | Enhanced short message and method for synchronizing and ensuring security of enhanced short messages exchanged in a cellular radio communication system The invention concerns a particular structure of enhanced short message, and a method for synchronizing and ensuring the security of exchanged enhanced short messages having this structure. Conventionally, an enhanced message is transmitted by a message s... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6272228 | Method for making a sound transducer integrated into an acoustic signal generating card The invention relates to a sound transducer in fluoride polyvinylidene (FPVD), its process of manufacture and integration into a card producing acoustic signals transmittable by telephone route. The process is chiefly characterized in that it consists of ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6262306 | Materials with ferromagnetic properties comprising organic molecules with magnetic properties, and methods for making same New molecules having the general formula A:N--B, where A:N-- is -substituted conjugated cyclic amine, with N being the N atom; and B is an -substituted cyclic radical. These materials have ferromagnetic properties and may be use in a variety... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6223989 | Method for making smart cards, and resulting cards An improvement to a method for making cards with an electronic module is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a card body (1) having a cavity (3, 4), an electronic module (5I) shaped to fit said cavity, and at least one first adhesion me... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6226382 | Method for implementing a private-key communication protocol between two processing devices A method for implementing private key protocols between two processing devices of which at least one is a portable storage medium. The devices are fitted with a digital processing circuit for performing modular calculation operations with a view to execut... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6215455 | Armored magnetic field antenna in printed circuit A shielded magnetic-field antenna has at least one turn of a metallic element and metallic tubular shielding positioned around the element. The turn (3a) is produced in a printed circuit on a card made of insulating material (4a). The shielding has two op... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6216014 | Communication system for managing safely and independently a plurality of applications by each user card and corresponding user card and management method A communication system comprising multiple terminal equipment (1), each consisting of a terminal (4) cooperating with a microprocessor-driven user card (SIM module; 5). Each user card includes data memory (8) comprising a plurality of objects and serving ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6215665 | Thin integrated circuit card comprising an improved manually actuated switch A thin integrated circuit card with an improved manually activated switch. The card is of the type that has two external plates, a lower one (12) and an upper one (14) that are separated by at least one interconnecting plate in which there is at least one... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6181735 | Modem equipped with a smartcard reader The invention relates to modems designed to allow transmission of data between a terminal (a personal computer or PC) and a network. To improve the operating versatility of a modem or its utilization by a smartcard, the modem is equipped according to the ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6182205 | Microcomputer PC-cards The invention relates to exchangeable memory or PC-cards with several integrated circuits for personal computers. These PC-cards are used as a large capacity mass memory for replacing floppy disks and other exchangeable magnetic supports. To protect the c... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6166330 | Housing for an extended-format releasable plug-in card A unitary housing for an extended-format releasable plug-in card (15). The housing comprises a first block (12) adapted to the standard plug-in card format and designed to contain the standardized portion of the card (15) inserted into the slot of a micro... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6120612 | Method for the continuous manufacture of anhydrous crystalline maltitol and a manufacturing apparatus therefor Disclosed herein is a continuous manufacturing method for anhydrous crystalline maltitol comprising the following steps: (i) a heating and concentrating step where an aqueous solution containing maltitol in which maltitol is a main ingredient is continuou... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6107010 | Method for printing on a portable data medium, particularly a smart card, and resulting printed data medium A method for printing on an exposed polymerised thermoplastic or curable layer of the body of a portable data medium, and a portable data medium particularly a chip card, comprising a polymerised layer, are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of mix... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6098888 | Integrated circuit card reader with coupling circuit to limit the function of microprocessor of the reader To limit the functions of microprocessors present in smart card readers that are designed to react to external demands in real time, a coupling circuit has been created to couple the reader to the smart card. The coupling circuit carries out all the synch... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6089846 | Feed device for a pressure die-casting or injection machine A feed device for an injection chamber of a pressure die-casting or injection machine or for a press tool or a forging press die transfers a billet into an injection chamber or die press. The billet may be of metal or plastic, filled or unfilled, and in a... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6060332 | Hybrid device with flush-mounted contacts for generating acoustic signals, and method for making same A process for manufacturing a hybrid card, and a hybrid card which functions as a smart card with flush contacts and/or produces acoustic signals which can be transmitted by telephone. The card includes a first sheet that has on one of its surfaces an int... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6058483 | Method for secure transfer of data by a communication network The invention concerns data transfer carried out by a communication network. It concerns in particular a method for safe data transfer by a communication network, between a first entity consisting of a chip card and a second entity, which consists in the ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6048619 | Method for adhering a polyurethane to a polymeric substrate Method of bonding a polyurethane surface to a polyvinyl chloride or other polymer substrate containing surface moisture, particularly useful for making chip cards. A resin comprising a polyol and a diisocyanate is placed on the substrate, followed by pres... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6045918 | Method for attaching a polyurethane surface to a polyvinyl chloride surface Method for attaching a polyurethane (PU) surface to a polyvinyl chloride or other polymer surface, particularly useful for making smart cards. A plasticizer compatible with both the PU and the polymer is placed between the surface of the polymer and the s... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6044352 | Method and system for processing and recording the transactions in a medical savings fund account Method and system for processing transactional data and monitoring funds invested in money market mutual funds for use in the purchase of health insurance policies and the payment of medical expenses. The method and system permits the establishment of a m... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6006297 | Computer PC-card able to perform internal programs The invention relates to exchangeable memory or PC-cards having several integrated circuits for personal computers. These memory or PC-cards serve as a large capacity mass memory for replacing floppy disks and other exchangeable magnetic supports. In order ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5982956 | Secure method for duplicating sensitive documents A method and device for securely duplicating sensitive documents. A marking element is entered on the original document to identify its confidential nature, as well as an encoded rules elements which defines duplication restrictions of the document. For e... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5928785 | Fine inorganic particles-containing fibers and method for forming the same Disclosed herein is fine inorganic particles-containing fiber which is characterized in that the fiber contains fine inorganic particles with an average particle size of not larger than 10 μm and the fiber-forming polymer contains not less than 0.01 mill... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5915226 | Prepaid smart card in a GSM based wireless telephone network and method for operating prepaid cards The invention provides a prepaid smart card to be used in a wireless telephone network, and methods for prepaying for wireless telephone services, as well as systems for operating a wireless telephone network with prepaid smart cards. The cards, methods a... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5901303 | Smart cards, systems using smart cards and methods of operating said cards in systems A smart card has a repository having a first data element and a value added function. The card further has an operating system having a data element access function for sequencing to said repository and a microprocessor for executing said data element and... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5885850 | Method for the 3D interconnection of packages of electronic components, and device obtained by this method A method for the interconnection of stacked packages encapsulating, for example, a semiconductor chip containing an integrated circuit, for example a memory. Packages with connection pins (21) are stacked and fixedly joined to each other by means of a coa... | 03/23/1999 |
