Patents Assigned to Gieseck & Devrient GmbH
  • Patent number: 8400495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element for security papers, value documents and the like, having a microoptical moiré magnification arrangement (30) for depicting a three-dimensional moiré image (40) that includes, in at least two moiré image planes spaced apart in a direction normal to the moiré magnification arrangement, image components (42, 44), having a motif image that includes two or more periodic or at least locally periodic lattice cell arrangements having different lattice periods and/or different lattice orientations that are each allocated to one moiré image plane and that include micromotif image components for depicting the image component (42, 44) of the allocated moiré image plane, for the moiré-magnified viewing of the motif image, a focusing element grid that is arranged spaced apart from the motif image and that includes a periodic or at least locally periodic arrangement of a plurality of lattice cells having one microfocusing element each, wherein, for almost all tilt directi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Wittich Kaule
  • Publication number: 20130063826
    Abstract: A method for producing a microstructure on a carrier by: (a) manufacturing a donor foil by forming an embossed structure with elevations and depressions in a first foil material and applying a transfer layer to the embossed structure, (b) manufacturing an acceptor foil by applying an adhesive layer to a second foil material, (c) laminating the donor foil and the acceptor foil by means of the adhesive layer, the transfer layer on the elevations of the embossed structure bonding to the adhesive layer, and (d) transferring the bonded regions of the transfer layer to the acceptor foil by separating the donor foil and the acceptor foil from each other, thereby forming in the acceptor foil a first microstructure from the transferred regions of the transfer layer, and/or forming in the donor foil a second microstructure complementary to the first microstructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Hoffmuller, Theodor Burchard, Michael Rahm, Josef Schinabeck, Manfred Heim, Andreas Rauch, Christian Fuhse
  • Publication number: 20130060939
    Abstract: A method and a system for checking whether program instructions have been executed by an end device, wherein, the end device calls for program instructions and the program instructions are stored in executable form in a trustworthy entity, in particular a chip card. Subsequently, the program instructions are variably modified in the trustworthy entity such that the modified program instructions vary upon each execution of the method. Through execution of the instructions in the end device there is obtained a check value which is in turn transferred to the trustworthy entity and verified in the trustworthy entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Sven Bauer
  • Patent number: 8387879
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic sensor for checking documents of value and an apparatus and a method, wherein there are used a magnetization device for magnetizing a document of value and the magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic signals of the document of value. The magnetic sensor has two sensor lines which have several magneto-sensitive elements with different main sensitivity directions which are oriented in particular perpendicular to each other. The first sensor line selectively detects first magnetic areas of the document of value of a first coercive field strength and the second sensor line selectively detects second magnetic areas of the document of value of a second coercive field strength. Since the differently coercive magnetic areas of the document of value are detected independently of each other, there can be ascertained reliably and independently of each other two magnetic codings from differently coercive magnetic areas, which are arranged on the same document of value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Schutzmann, Elisabeth Paul
  • Patent number: 8390132
    Abstract: A chip card in the form of an ID-1 card, a plug-in SIM or a USB token has a layered compound (12) with two (4, 5) or three (4, 5, 9) layers extending over the complete chip card (1). An exterior foil layer (4) has on its outward facing front side (4a) a communication contact layout (2) and on its back side (4b) a flip chip (7), as well as a flip chip contact layout (6) which is electroconductively connected with the communication contact layout (2) on the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Tarantino
  • Patent number: 8382163
    Abstract: The invention relates to documents of value, such as bank notes, checks, passports, ID cards or the like, with increased fitness for circulation, to a security paper for producing them, and to a method for producing said security paper and such documents of value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Boehm, Reinhard Plaschka, Friedrich Kretschmar
  • Patent number: 8381917
    Abstract: A method for destroying bank notes is provided, wherein bank notes are checked and sorted by at least one bank-note processing machine in at least one decentralized place, whereby unfit bank notes are sorted out in order to be transported to a central place for destruction. It is provided that all bank notes recognized as unfit are stored on a single stack independently of the bank-note denomination and/or orientation recognized during the check, for which purpose a single output pocket of the bank-note processing machine is used for all unfit bank notes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Alfred Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8386913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for providing hypertext data through a hypertext server (43) on a portable data carrier (10) for a terminal (80) connected to the portable data carrier (10), and to an accordingly adapted portable data carrier (10). The hypertext server (43) receives (100) a hypertext query of the terminal (80) and thereupon provides (200) hypertext data relating to the hypertext query. The hypertext server (43) then sends (400) the provided hypertext data as a hypertext response to the terminal (80). The method is characterized in that upon the providing (200) of the hypertext data at least one hyperlink contained in the hypertext data is checked and the checked hyperlink is contained in the hypertext response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Spitz
  • Patent number: 8376410
    Abstract: A portable data carrier (1) includes a carrier (2) which has a first graphical representation (3) and a second graphical representation (4). The second graphical representation (4) is better protected against tampering than the first graphical representation (3). In addition, the second graphical representation (4) is configured as a reference for detecting tampering with the first graphical representation (3). Only a partial area (5) of the first graphical representation (3) laterally overlaps with the second graphical representation (4) and there is no lateral overlap between the first graphical representation (3) and the second graphical representation (4) outside the partial area (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Peer-Alexander Komarek
  • Publication number: 20130042300
    Abstract: A method for configuring an application for an end device having a predefined end-device configuration with a predefined security level. A query about the predefined end-device configuration is directed by means of the application to a central place in which a multiplicity of security levels of end-device configurations have respective application configurations associated therewith. In response to the query, the central place ascertains the predefined security level of the predefined end-device configuration from the multiplicity of security levels, and outputs it to the application together with the associated application configuration. In dependence on the output security level, one or several functions of the application are configured by means of the application on the basis of the output application configuration for the end device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Spitz
  • Patent number: 8371510
    Abstract: A module for insertion into a data carrier body to form a data carrier, the module having a contact interface with a contact area, at least one integrated circuit and a display device with a display area which are interconnected. Method for producing the module, the data carrier body and the data carrier. The contact interface and the display device of the module are disposable in the data carrier body such that the contact area of the contact interface and the display area of the display device point in opposite directions. The data carrier body thus possesses a through opening into which the module is insertable as described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schiller, Thomas Tarantino, Hans Graf, Stefan Kluge, Michael Stegmüller, Manuela Schröpf
  • Patent number: 8367188
    Abstract: A printed document of value has an authenticity feature in the form of at least two luminescent substances on the basis of host lattices which are doped with one or a plurality of ions. By systematically changing the host lattices and/or ions of the (nd)3 electron configuration a specific setting of the luminescence properties of luminescent substances is possible, the combination of which permits a multiplicity of complex new authenticity features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Heer, Thomas Giering, Kai Uwe Stock, Gregor Grauvogl
  • Patent number: 8358232
    Abstract: An apparatus for actuating an actuator having an energy storage for supplying the actuator, an integrated circuit for controlling the energy supply from the energy storage to the actuator and an antenna device. Additionally, an interface module that is configured as a separate unit relative to the integrated circuit is connected to the antenna device for the contactless transmission of energy for the energy storage and of data for a communication with the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Emil Knies
  • Patent number: 8349132
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dewatering screen for manufacturing paper having multi-level watermarks, having a carrier mold (54) that exhibits, in a fractional region, a multi-level relief (30) in the form of the watermark to be produced. According to the present invention, it is provided that the multi-level relief is formed by an injection-molded, perforated (40) watermark insert (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Gregarek, Andreas Hanelt, Bernhard Wiedner, Theodor Burchard, Andreas Aigner, Gunther Wild
  • Patent number: 8346215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for subsequently implementing a SIM functionality, with the help of which a mobile telephone (1) is enabled to use a mobile radio network, in a security module (3). Within the context of the method according to the invention the SIM functionality is realized in the form of an application, of which at least a first part is loaded into the security module (3). Furthermore, personalizing data, which are required for a use of the mobile radio network by the mobile telephone (1), are transmitted from a provider (2) to the security module (3) in encrypted form on the direct or indirect way. The encrypted personalizing data are decrypted by the security module (3) by means of a secret key of a user stored in the security module (3). The security module (3) is personalized by means of the decrypted personalizing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Weiss, Wolfgang Rankl
  • Publication number: 20120324168
    Abstract: A method for protecting an operation sequence executed by a portable data carrier from spying out, wherein the data carrier has at least a processor core, a main memory and a cache memory with a plurality of cache lines. The processor core is able to access, upon executing the operation sequence, at least two data values, with the data values occupying at least one cache line in the cache memory and being respectively divided into several portions so that the occurrence of a cache miss or a cache hit is independent of which data value is accessed. A computer program product and a device have corresponding features. The invention serves to thwart attacks based on an evaluation of the cache accesses during the execution of the operation sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Christof Rempel
  • Patent number: 8333870
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security paper for producing value documents, such as bank notes or the like, which includes a creasable, multilayer substrate having at least one paper layer and at least one film, and to a method for producing such a security paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Theo Burchard, Mario Keller, Reinhard Tauber, Rudolf Seidler
  • Patent number: 8332834
    Abstract: In a method for generating program code in a load format for a portable data carrier, a pseudo library is used, which differs from the library located on the data carrier in such a way that at least some of the internal workings of the library located on the data carrier are absent or hidden or masked in the pseudo library. In a method for providing executable program code in the portable data carrier, the program code in load format is linked relative to the library located on the data carrier. A device and a computer program product have corresponding features. The invention provides secure, privacy-safeguarding technology, which allows the generation of program code in a load format for a portable data carrier and the provision of executable program code in the portable data carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Kolzenburg, Stephan Spitz, Wolfgang Effing
  • Patent number: 8331990
    Abstract: The ODA database (4) contains SIM card (1) information related to the cards that shall be activated. When a SIM card (1) is inserted into a mobile equipment, such as a mobile telephone, and the mobile equipment is switched on, the ODA (2) is connected to the SIM card for updating the SIM card with a card definition file. The ODA (2) is arranged to be connected to a HLR/AUC (5) in order to transfer information stored on the updated SIM card, and the HLR/AUC is arranged to set up a subscription for the SIM card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Larsson
  • Patent number: 8328084
    Abstract: An apparatus for accepting and/or dispensing payment and/or for processing value documents having a housing in which there is disposed a control device for controlling at least one part of the apparatus, the housing having a housing body with a housing opening, a housing element movable relative to the housing body, and a housing element holding device that holds the housing element movably on at least one part of the housing body, and a display device controlled by the control device for displaying operating and servicing information which is held on the housing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolai Lipkowitsch, Thomas Schönberger