Patents Assigned to Universal Magnifier LLC
  • Credit card with magnifying lens formed with a radiation-curable resin
    Patent number: 5856661
    Abstract: A financial transaction card for reading externally stored information includes a transparent, substantially non-foldable rigid base and a strip for carrying machine readable information. The rigid base comprises a magnifying lens. The lens is formed by machining a shallow cavity in the rigid base; partially filling the cavity with a radiation curable liquid resin; impressing a lens pattern on the surface of the resin with a die; and exposing the resin to radiation of sufficient intensity to cure the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Universal Magnifier LLC
    Inventors: Alan Finkelstein, Ron Gschwandtner