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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7003678 | IC card and IC chip module In an IC card 30 is sealed an IC chip 70 provided with an exposure sensor 84. When exposure sensor 84 detects that IC card 30 has been opened, exposure sensor 84 outputs an exposure detection signal to a CPU 76. In re... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6902116 | Method for making a financial transaction card with embedded electronic circuitry Financial transaction and similar cards are fabricated with a split core adapted to received embedded electronic circuitry. The card core has two or more laminated layers. The cavity is milled into one or more of the layers to receive the electronic circuitry. The c... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889901 | Device for conveying products The invention relates to a device for controlled conveying of products (2), such as drinks cans or bottles from an intake (3) at a first height level to an outlet (5) at a second height level. The device comprises a substantially vertical convey... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6119946 | Countable electronic monetary system and method A smart card payment system using stored value in the form of serialized electronic coins and electronic bills, which provides efficient security monitoring without the need for full centralized accounting of each transaction. Central monitoring of the sy... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6098889 | Hybrid information recording medium with masking layer An optical recording medium includes an integrated circuit (IC) module whose exposed surface is masked so as not to be visually recognized. The optical recording medium can be efficiently manufactured without degrading the essential function thereof. The ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6062480 | Hot docking system and methods for detecting and managing hot docking of bus cards A hot docking system and method for managing and detecting hot docking of bus cards. The hot docking system detects the load impedance at the power pins of the bus connector to determine whether a card has been inserted. When insertion is detected, bus ac... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061664 | System for facilitating the ordering and paying of services by means of a communication network The invention relates to a system (1) for electronic orders and payments by means of a communication network (6), such as a telephone network. A facilitating unit (2) comprising a voice response system (21) and a communication server (22) makes it possibl... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5893907 | Apparatus and system for managing a card number The apparatus of the present invention is directed to an apparatus and a system for managing a card number for so-called electronic money cards and comprises an interface means for handling the signals between the head and branch offices of an issuing aut... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5787186 | Biometric security process for authenticating identity and credit cards, visas, passports and facial recognition A biometric security procedure for manufacturing an identity document, such as an identity card, credit card, visa or passport, which includes the steps of: providing a nucleus of the identity document, the nucleus including personal data of a holder of t... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5644638 | Process for protecting components of smart or chip cards from fraudulent use Process for protecting components of smart cards from fraudulent use, wherein the component is locked as long as an unlock order formed by a secret key has not been applied thereto, characterized in that it consists in writing in the component, at the tim... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5442165 | Secure IC card system with reusable prototype IC card An IC card system uses a prototype IC card and one or more production IC cards. The prototype card is programmed to execute standard read/write commands, and an initialize command that returns the card to an initial state. The prototype IC card, which can... | 08/15/1995 |
| 4866259 | Equipment for automatic personalizing of credit cards The invention relates to a card-personalizing apparatus comprising at least one device for treating the cards and one handling robot. The treating device comprises a plurality of personalizing units associated with a control unit. The handling robot inclu... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4825054 | Method and apparatus for parallel integrated circuit card initialization and embossing The present invention provides a method and apparatus for parallel initialization of integrated circuit cards along a card transfer path.... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4736234 | Method of fabrication of a light image detector and a two-dimensional matrix detector obtained by means of said method In a light image detector, a substrate is covered with a first layer of conductive material on which is formed a two-dimensional matrix array of photodiodes in the form of pads arranged in rows and columns and each comprising a layer of amorphous semicond... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4734695 | Secure card and sensing system An identification card is disclosed as for supporting commercial or other significant transactions involving a designated subject. The card incorporates a machine-readable record and is produced with an individual birefringent characteristic to modulate a... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4659620 | Information medium adapted to be written by thermo-optical means and method of manufacturing same An information medium adapted to be written by thermo-optical means comprising a heat-sensitive structure adapted to store information to be read by optical means. This includes a thin metal layer, which, when incident writing radiation impinges on it, ca... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4616685 | Pneumatic tire tread of stable dynamic performance Improvement of stability of dynamic performance of pneumatic tire tread composition, by adding at least one of some esters such as phosphoric acid ester, fatty acid ester in a definite ratio to the known composition comprising styrene-rich SBR added with ... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4518853 | Magnetic stripe character applying module A module for applying a magnetic stripe character to a plastic card. A tiltable carriage moves the card along a transfer path past magnetic code applying apparatus when tilted in a first position. When the carriage is tilted into a second position, it ret... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4476468 | Secure transaction card and verification system An identification card is disclosed as for supporting commercial or other significant transactions involving a designated subject. The card incorporates a machine-readable record and includes a composition to characteristically modulate a light beam for i... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4423415 | Non-counterfeitable document system A system is disclosed for authenticating an object on the basis of certain physical phenomena or character, specifically, measurable, but not practicably duplicable random variations in the object. In one form, the object (authenticator (T)) is a paper ta... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4403119 | DTMF Activated remote telephone line switching and testing DTMF (dual-tone multi-frequency) activated apparatus for remote switching and testing of a four-wire telephone line system is disclosed. The telephone line provides four-wire service between a first location and a plurality of second remote locations. By ... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4100011 | Production of laminated card with printed magnetically encodable stripe In production of a credit card or other magnetically encodable articles, a thermoplastic surface laminate layer is thermally tacked to a core stock layer and a magnetically encodable stripe is printed, for example, silk screened, on the laminate-core stoc... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4026642 | Identification card issuing apparatus An apparatus for automatically issuing an identification card, such as a commutation ticket, airline ticket, credit card, driver's license or the like, which has information forming means having an information storage device for electromagnetically storin... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3987725 | Process of screen manufacture and use for coding credit cards A process for forming credit cards in which encoded information is screen printed on a plastic sheet. In the process, a photographic film is placed in contact with a surface having film exposure means positioned with respect to the surface. Locating means... | 10/26/1976 |
