Patents by Inventor Jeffrey J. Rust

Jeffrey J. Rust 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).

  • Virtual multihopper card feeder
    Patent number: 6446832
    Abstract: An improved card feeding apparatus and associated method for feeding plastic cards to a printer. The apparatus can be used in any system where plastic cards are fed into a printer, but has particular use in a self-service, automated card issuance kiosk. The apparatus includes a support structure, and a card cassette is mounted on the support structure for holding a plurality of cards. The card cassette is moveable relative to the support structure, with the card cassette defining a discrete position for each card. A card picker is mounted on the support structure, with the card picker being capable of picking any one of the plurality of cards from the card cassette. Since each card has a discrete position within the card cassette, the card cassette can be moved past the card picker and any one of the cards within the card cassette can be picked by the card picker, and subsequently fed to a printer to personalize the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Datacard Corporation
    Inventors: Henry V. Holec, Cory Dean Wooldridge, Gary Paul Mattila, Jeffrey J. Rust
  • Method and apparatus for parallel integrated circuit card initialization and embossing
    Patent number: 4825054
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for parallel initialization of integrated circuit cards along a card transfer path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: DataCard Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Rust, Rodney J. LeVasseur, Alan Meilach, Brian Beech, Richard M. Wetzel, Eric J. Freudenheim