Patents by Inventor Bradford Drake West

Bradford Drake West has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of making a magnetically encodable card having magnetic particles uniformly distributed throughout
    Patent number: 6221296
    Abstract: A method of making a magnetically encodable card which comprises forming a dispersion of ferromagnetic particles in an organic fluid medium, forming a composite by intimately combining the dispersion with a thermoplastic resin plasticized by the organic fluid medium and forming the composite into an encodable card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert Owen James, Mary-Irene Elizabeth Condo, Bradford Drake West, Lawrence Allen Rowley
  • Magnetic card and reader system
    Patent number: 5714747
    Abstract: A credit and access control card and reader system comprising: a magnetically encodable card comprising a body having upper and lower surfaces and side and end edges, the body being formed of plastic material having magnetic particles uniformly dispersed throughout the plastic material; and a reader having a magneto resistive (MR) head for reading the magnetically encodable card as it is moved past the MR head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bradford Drake West, Greg A. Burg, Steven James Adamson, Frederick Rockwell Chamberlain, IV, Tomasz Mark Jagielinski, Frederick John Jeffers, Robert Owen James, Neil Smith