Patents Assigned to Integrated Card-Gard Corporation
  • Magnetic card protection system
    Patent number: 4851610
    Abstract: A protective device for protecting the information on magnetically encoded areas of plastic cards comprising strips of a ferro-magnetic amorphous composition having a metal-glass characteristic situated adjacent and covering the magnetically encoded areas on either side so as to redirect any corrupting electromagnetic and statomagnetic fields. In a preferred embodiment, the protective strips are incorporated in a card holding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Integrated Card-Gard Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth L. LeBlanc, Gavin M. Hall