Patents Assigned to Card Technology
  • Publication number: 20180108434
    Abstract: A personal health record card for storing instantly accessible medical information pertaining to the individual associated with the personal health record card is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: SCS Card Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Alix Michael Freedman
  • Patent number: 8301300
    Abstract: A smart card personalization system maintains a database containing card issuer data format templates, card applications, card operating system commands, and personalization equipment specifications and provides a centralized interface of inputs and outputs to a card issuing process which dynamically adjusts to changes in the issuing process to easily permit a card issuer to change data formats, card applications, card operating systems and/or personalization equipment in a card issuing process. The system interfaces to any card issuer management system, manages the transfer of cardholder data and card applications to the particular personalization equipment used, and maintains statistics for real-time and off-line inquiries to support critical management and reporting functions. Furthermore, the system works with a variety of security methodologies to prevent fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Tushie, William W. Haeuser
  • Patent number: 7500601
    Abstract: A smart card personalization system provides an interface to smart card personalization stations and to external computing or data resources which normally are not available directly to personalization station. A card issuer management systems prepares card objects and assigns a unique card object identifier. A smart card personalization server receives the card objects from the card issuer management system. A smart card personalization controller receives the unique card object identifiers and routes the card object identifiers to waiting personalization stations. The personalization stations use the card object identifier to request data and services from the smart card personalization server in order to personalize the smart card. The services provided by the smart card personalization server include data services, security services and support services. The smart card personalization server supports multiple active personalization station sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Neal Goman, Denis C. Burand, Thomas L. Younger
  • Patent number: 7230279
    Abstract: A memory card is provided. The memory card comprises a substrate, a plurality of electronic package devices, a molding compound and a plastic forming material. The substrate has at least a plurality of outer contacts and a plurality of inner contacts and the outer contacts are electrically connected to the inner contacts. The electronic package devices are located on the substrate and the electronic package devices electrically connect to the inner contacts, respectively. The molding compound is covering the electronic package devices and the corresponding inner contacts. The plastic forming material is covering the molding compound and the substrate, and the plastic forming material exposes the outer contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Flash Memory Card Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Kuo, Ming-Jhy Jiang, Cheng-Kang Yu, Hui-Chuan Chuang
  • Patent number: 7225994
    Abstract: A distinctive recorded sound is generated when a credit card or other financial transaction card is used at a point of sale (POS) terminal. As is common, the POS terminal includes a card reader through which the card is swiped to read data that is encoded on a magnetic stripe affixed to the card. A recorded sound may be stored in the card or in the card reader. In either case, the sound is played back through the card reader when the card is swiped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Innovative Card Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 7205644
    Abstract: A memory card structure comprising a substrate, a plurality of memory chips, some package material and an ultra-thin plastic shell is provided. To fabricate the memory card, a substrate having a first surface and a second surface is provided. The first surface has a plurality of outer contacts and the second surface has at least a cavity. There is a plurality of inner contacts around the cavity. Furthermore, the outer contacts and the inner contacts are electrically connected to each other. The memory chips are stacked up inside the cavity and electrically connected to the inner contacts of the substrate. Then, the memory chips and the inner contacts are encapsulated using the molding compound. Thereafter, the ultra-thin plastic shell is placed over the second surface and attached to the substrate. That portion of the ultra-thin plastic shell covering the memory chips has a thickness of about 0.1˜0.15 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Flash Memory Card Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Kuo, Ming-Jhy Jiang, Cheng-Kang Yu, Hui-Chuan Chuang
  • Patent number: 7193304
    Abstract: A memory card structure comprising a substrate, a plurality of memory chips, some molding compound and an ultra-thin plastic shell is provided. To fabricate the memory card, a substrate having a first surface and a second surface is provided. The first surface has a plurality of outer contacts and the second surface has a cavity and a plurality of inner contacts around the cavity. The outer contacts and the inner contacts are electrically connected to each other. The memory chips are stacked up in the same area inside the cavity. Furthermore, the memory chips are electrically connected to the inner contacts. Then, the memory chips and the inner contacts are encapsulated. Thereafter, the ultra-thin plastic shell is placed over the second surface and attached to the substrate. That portion of the ultra-thin plastic shell covering the memory chips has a thickness of about 0.1˜0.4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Flash Memory Card Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsien Kuo, Ming-Jhy Jiang, Cheng-Kang Yu, Hui-Chuan Chuang
  • Patent number: 7188762
    Abstract: A secure card package which includes an inactive transaction card that includes an edge. The secure card package also includes a security piece that includes an edge. The security piece and the inactive transaction card are connected in an edge-to-edge manner to prevent the transaction card from being activated. The security piece is selectively detachable from the transaction card so that, when detached, the transaction card can be activated. The invention also includes a process for activating an inactive transaction card which includes the steps of receiving the inactive transaction card and a security piece and detaching the security piece from the inactive transaction card so that the inactive transaction card can be activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Card Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ron E. Goade, Sr., Sean C. Goade
  • Patent number: 7184856
    Abstract: A smart card personalization system maintains a database containing card issuer data format templates, card applications, card operating system commands, and personalization equipment specifications and provides a centralized interface of inputs and outputs to a card issuing process which dynamically adjusts to changes in the issuing process to easily permit a card issuer to change data formats, card applications, card operating systems and/or personalization equipment in a card issuing process. The system interfaces to any card issuer management system, manages the transfer of cardholder data and card applications to the particular personalization equipment used, and maintains statistics for real-time and off-line inquiries to support critical management and reporting functions. Furthermore, the system works with a variety of security methodologies to prevent fraud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Tushie, William W. Haeuser
  • Patent number: 6908241
    Abstract: A system for processing cards including a magnetic medium extending along one side of the cards and printing on both sides of the cards is disclosed. The system is a plurality of card processing stations (14, 30, 24) spaced along a card transport (18?) extending between a card input 12 and a card output 16. A first drive motor (54) drives a transmission (60) coupling the motor to a card drive associated with each station to transport the cards at each station during processing thereof. A second drive motor 56 rotates a combined magnetic encoding and card flipping station. A controller 60 controls operation of the stations and the first and second motors so that the combined magnetic encoding and flipping station flips the cards to a reverse orientation to print a second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Card Technology
    Inventors: Philip M. Roth, Keith R. Ashley, Yook Chan, David J. Haas, Igor Pankiw
  • Patent number: 6902116
    Abstract: 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 core layers are then laminated together, along with protective overlays. Alternative fabrication methods include co-extrusion and injection molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Innovative Card Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Alan Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 6484780
    Abstract: The invention is a laminator and a method of lamination of a plastic card (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Keith R. Ashley, Igor Pankiw, Wesley L. Burrowes
  • Patent number: 6439567
    Abstract: A card guide for holding a stack of cards to be separated, and a card picker for separating a single card from a stack of cards at a first location and moving the separated card to a second location, where each card has substantially the same thickness and substantially the same periphery. The card guide is includes a frame having a periphery sufficiently larger than the card periphery to permit the cards to readily enter the frame while remaining substantially aligned. The card guide has an open front face and an open rear face. The card guide frame includes a bottom member having a card support area with a rear edge and includes a side member having a notch extending substantially the full height of the open rear face and extending from the card support area rear edge toward the front face by a distance at least as great as the thickness of the cards. The bottom member has at least one air hole through it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: NBS Card Technology
    Inventor: Keith R. Ashley
  • Patent number: 6367143
    Abstract: A coil element according to the present invention includes a plurality of first conductive materials formed on a base material at a predetermined pitch, an insulation material superposed on the first conductive materials, and a plurality of second conductive materials formed on the insulation material at a predetermined pitch, wherein the first conductive materials and the second conductive materials are alternately connected to each other while interposing the insulation material between the both to form a three-dimensional coil. By properly selecting a pitch, a width, or a length of the coil, it is possible to easily realize a desired high inductance vale even though a pattern area is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Smart Card Technologies Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiro Sugimura
  • Patent number: 6352206
    Abstract: The invention is an embossing system, embosser and indent imprinter and method of operation thereof. The invention includes a plurality of stations (34, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 46) including an embossing station (38); a carriage (162) for holding an item (60) to be processed by the system at the plurality of stations including the embossing station; a carriage transport (180) which moves the carriage while holding the item to be processed along a plurality of spaced apart transport paths; and wherein at least one station is disposed on each of the plurality of transport paths and the carriage transport moves the carriage holding the item along the plurality of transport paths to each of the plurality of processing stations at which processing is performed on the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Keith R. Ashley, David K. Giegerich, Igor Pankiw, Philip M. Roth
  • Patent number: 6142370
    Abstract: The present invention is a card transport mechanism for transporting cards (114) along a transport path (108) and method of operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, Keith R. Ashley, Igor Pankiw
  • Patent number: 6138917
    Abstract: A transaction card includes at least two read-only magnetically encoded stripes encoding different data in accordance with standard data encryption protocols readable by conventional transaction card reading systems. The stripes are associated with areas of the card which may have different indicia, such as, for example, being different colors or different textures. In accordance with one embodiment, superimposed upon the card may be two sets of printed indicia including, for example, the transaction card number, the expiration date and the name of the card user. One set of the printed indicia is inverted with respect to the other set so as to indicate to the user which one of the magnetic stripes is being processed. In this way, magnetically encoded information on the same transaction card may be segregated at the point of sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: International Card Technology
    Inventor: Stephen R. Chapin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6089457
    Abstract: The present invention is a card transport mechanism for transporting cards (114) along a transport path (108) and method of operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Card Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. LaManna, Keith R. Ashley, Igor Pankiw, Philip M. Roth, Edward W. Hague
  • Patent number: 5984191
    Abstract: A transaction card includes at least two read-only magnetically encoded stripes encoding different data in accordance with standard data encryption protocols readable by conventional transaction card reading systems. The stripes are on opposite sides of the card adjacent the same edge of the card. In accordance with one embodiment, superimposed upon the card are two sets of printed indicia including, for example, the transaction card number, the expiration date and the name of the card user. The indicia may be placed on the same side of the card or on opposite sides of the card. In this way, magnetically encoded information on the same transaction card may be segregated at the point of sale. The transaction card is readable by standard, existing readers and the information is processed for invoicing by standard processing systems to preferably generate a single statement with two groups of charges, one relating to each magnetically encoded stripe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: International Card Technology
    Inventor: Stephen R. Chapin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5979773
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to an electronic data access and retrieval system comprising at least first and second smart cards, a first card being encoded with digital data fields representative of predetermined information and a second card including authorization codes for enabling access to and authorized retrieval of selected information from digital data fields of the first card, and includes computer means including display means for displaying the access data. A method is also disclosed of operating an electronic secured access verification display system for displaying an indication of permissible and non-permissible access to a facility of authorized personnel and for verifying the identity of such personnel by providing IDENTITY SMART CARDS, one for each authorized person, and an ACCESS SMART CARD to each authorized operator of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: American Card Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Findley, Jr., Robert Dixon