Patents Examined by Kyle R Grabowski
  • Scratch-off coatings compatible with digital imaging
    Patent number: 11351445
    Abstract: A security-enhanced document with a removable SOC is provided that is compatible with process color digital imaging, method and system for producing the document enhances production, and expands the aesthetics of the documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HYDRAGRAPHIX LLC
    Inventors: Mark Chiles Tevis, Fred W. Finnerty, Kenneth E. Irwin
  • Optically variable security arrangement
    Patent number: 11345179
    Abstract: An optically variable security arrangement for securing valuable articles, comprises a first sub-element having a two-dimensional relief grid composed of a plurality of grid elements and that has, in at least one spatial direction R1, a first line screen p below 500 ?m, and in which the grid elements are each formed from at least two relief elements that are directionally reflective in different directions, and a second sub-element having at least one dot and/or line grid that, in a spatial direction R2, has a second line screen q. A movement effect is created by the interplay of the relief grid and the dot and/or line grid when the security arrangement is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Imhof, Raphael Dehmel, Christian Fuhse
  • Micro-imagery design integration
    Patent number: 11331937
    Abstract: A security element formed on a substrate having a printing side and a viewing side is provided, the security element including: a first image portion provided on the printing side of the substrate, the first image portion including one or more micro-image elements; a second image portion provided on the printing side and/or the viewing side of the substrate; and a plurality of focussing elements disposed on or in the viewing side of the substrate for observing the one or more micro-image elements; wherein the first image portion and the second image portion are integrated into at least one distinguishable security element when observed from the viewing side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CCL SECURE PTY LTD
    Inventors: Karlo Ivan Jolic, Darren Phillips, Gary Fairless Power
  • Security element comprising micro-reflectors for a perspective representation of a motif
    Patent number: 11325412
    Abstract: A flat security element with microreflectors arranged as a microreflector pattern in a main plane of the security element. The microreflectors present a motif made up of image points to a viewer. The motif appears for the viewer as lying outside the main plane of the security element. Two of the microreflectors are adjusted in each case to produce one of the image points of the motif appearing for the viewer as lying outside the main plane. The microreflector pattern has several groups of microreflectors. Each of the groups is provided to represent to the viewer a perspective view of the motif after tilting the security element about an axis lying in the main plane. Image points of the motif are shifted by shift ranges of different sizes through the tilting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Kai Hermann Scherer, Raphael Dehmel, Maik Rudolf Johann Scherer
  • Adaptable educational device
    Patent number: 11314275
    Abstract: An educational device for counting and mathematics. The educational device includes a frame that includes a first end, a second end, and a releasable connection point configured to attach to an additional frame. The educational device further includes a first group adjacent to the first end and including a bead. The educational device further includes a second group adjacent to the second end and including a second bead. The educational device can further include a divider located between the first and the second end. The divider can separate the first group from the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Ameerah Anakaona Bello
  • Expandable storage device
    Patent number: 11292284
    Abstract: An expandable storage device is provided including a first panel and a second panel, along with one or more mechanisms for adjusting the size of a spine therebetween. By one approach, the storage device includes a first panel having a first panel spine portion, a second panel having a second panel spine portion, and one or more actuators, where the first panel spine portion and the second panel spine portion are configured to form a spine of the device having an adjustable width. The one or more actuators may be configured to move between an unlocked and a locked configuration to move the first panel or the second panel relative to one another and selectively retain the spine of the device at variety of adjustable widths. So configured, the device may accommodate an increasing or decreasing number of articles, sheets, or other items placed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ACCO Brands Corporation
    Inventors: Edward P. Busam, Gary W. Chalmers
  • Security display devices, their production and use
    Patent number: 11285753
    Abstract: Security documents often incorporate security devices to prevent or hinder counterfeiters. Disclosed herein are security devices that include a fluid or fluids within the devices. Such devices, and security documents that include them, afford new techniques to check whether a security document is a legitimate or counterfeit copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Charles Douglas MacPherson, Theodoros Garanzotis
  • Multi-sheet double stick layered pad
    Patent number: 11285752
    Abstract: A multi-layer pad of double-sided adhesive sheet material with individual pull-tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Sandeep Seth
  • Spike assembly
    Patent number: 11273664
    Abstract: In a first aspect there is disclosed a spike assembly (10) including a base (12) and a spike formation (14) operatively attached to the base (12). The spike formation (14) is adapted to hold a plurality of impaled sheets and includes an elongate spike (16) longitudinally extending between a base end (18) and an impale end (20). The base end (18) of the spike (16) is operatively adapted for attachment to the base (12). The spike assembly (12) further includes a (i) handle (26) operatively associated with the spike formation (14) and moveable relative to the spike formation to apply force to a sheet to be impaled on the spike formation, and (ii) a guide assembly (28) operatively adapted to guide movement of the handle (26) relative to the spike formation (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Alex Hezari, Armando Camacho
  • Optically variable ghost image with embedded data
    Patent number: 11267276
    Abstract: Techniques are described to embed graphical identifiers into a ghost image within a layer of laminate of an identification document. The ghost image includes optically variable media that has a first appearance when viewed from a front of the identification document in reflected light at a first angle and a second, different appearance when viewed from the front of the identification document in reflected light in a second, different angle. During the ghost image generation process, a graphical identifier can be placed on a baseline ghost image to generate an adjusted ghost image. Once the adjusted ghost image is printed onto the identification document, the graphical identifier can be viewable based on the appearance of the adjusted ghost identifier in relation to the reflected light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yecheng Wu, Robert L. Jones, Daoshen Bi, Ashley S. R. Tiguy
  • Tamper evident label and article incorporating the same
    Patent number: 11263927
    Abstract: A tamper evident label is formed of destructible material and has opposite major surfaces. One of the major surfaces has an adhesive thereon and is configured to overlie a theft protection sensor and adhere to an article to be protected. At least one weakness formation is provided in the label adjacent the periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Custom Security Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Lucien Curnew, Robert Petryczka, Morton Roseman
  • Separable composite articles in sheet or roll form
    Patent number: 11257400
    Abstract: A linear series of connected unitary sheet-like articles, each of which comprises a panel flatly conjoined along a unifying flat bond zone with a flexible elastic layer that extends away from the panel and includes an elastic fastening loop. Adjacent articles of the series are ruptureably connected in a manner permitting the series to be handled as a unit while at the same time permitting ruptureable separation of individual articles from the series. In one embodiment, the linear series is wound into roll form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Bedford Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert B. Ludlow, Justin C. King, Kim A. Milbrandt, Colin M. O'Donnell, Jeffrey D. Tschetter
  • Method for producing secure identification document with color portrait and secure identification document thereof
    Patent number: 11230128
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of secure identification document, specifically to a method for producing a secure identification document with a color portrait and a secure identification document thereof. The method comprises: etching identity information on the substrate of the data surface of document by laser, and the identity information comprises a black-and-white portrait and text information; printing a color portrait in a blank space of the substrate with color ink to obtain a personalized data surface, and the color portrait is an enlargement of the black-and-white portrait in equal proportion; and printing a transparent protective layer with a transparent varnish on the upper surface of the personalized data surface, wherein the protective layer covers the color portrait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN EMPEROR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Song Zheng, Xiaohong Tang, Xiaojun Jiang, Jiange Feng, Yongbing Hu
  • Payment card with removable insert and identification elements
    Patent number: 11232337
    Abstract: Aspects described herein may allow for a payment card assembly including a payment card having a first surface, an opposed second surface, and an aperture extending through the payment card from the first surface to the second surface. An insert may be removably received in the aperture. Each of a plurality of identification elements may be configured to be removably received in the aperture and have an identification characteristic different than an identification characteristic of each of the other identification elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Goodsitt, Melissa A. Crawford, Micah Price
  • Security device and method of making thereof
    Patent number: 11225102
    Abstract: A security device and method of making thereof. The security device includes a colour shifting element that exhibits different colours dependent on the angle of incidence of light impinging upon the colour shifting element, and; an at least partially transparent light control layer covering at least a part of the colour shifting element and including a surface relief adapted to modify the angle of light incident upon the light control layer, wherein; the light control layer includes at least first and second functional regions having different refractive indices such that light incident upon the first functional region impinges upon the colour shifting element at a first angle of incidence, and light incident upon the second functional region impinges upon the colour shifting element at a second, different, angle of incidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: John Godfrey, Rebecca Locke, Meagan De La Bastide
  • Label book containing printed store labels for use along a retail shelf edge
    Patent number: 11203221
    Abstract: Embodiments of a store label booklet include a plurality of sheets stacked one on top of the other and connected to a binding that spans an entire thickness of the booklet, each sheet including a planar array of store labels. No release coating is used. When each store label or row is removed from the book, a liner strip remains connected to the binder and a portion of the adhesive lying opposite the liner strip is exposed for application of the label to a retail shelf edge. Each store label may differ in orientation, size, or style and may contain different product information. Location information may be located on a binding of the booklet, on the label, or on both the binding and the label. The store labels may be printed in a predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Elite Creative Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: John Foegelle
  • Pocket insert removal tool and method
    Patent number: 11198209
    Abstract: An inventive tool enables easy removal of label media from tight spaces, such as removal of a spine or cover label from the label pocket of a notebook binder. The tool is generally flat, skinny, and long and has an adhesive capture end and a handle end. The adhesive capture end utilizes a low- to medium-tack pressure sensitive adhesive to capture the entrapped label media when the tool is inserted into the pocket. Modes of providing a pressure sensitive adhesive end include spray application and double- and single-coated films and other media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Lydia Dean-Reese
  • Modular notebook system
    Patent number: 11148455
    Abstract: A modular notebook system includes a cover having a plurality of surfaces. The system also includes a binding coupled to the plurality of surfaces via a flexible and/or foldable material. The binding forms a magnetic spine by having at least one magnetic pad configured to receive a magnetically attractive binding element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Rocket Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Epstein, Joseph Lemay
  • Method for changing an edge of a portable card-shaped data carrier
    Patent number: 11148458
    Abstract: A method for changing a geometry of an edge of a portable data carrier, wherein the geometry of the edge is changed in order to work on the edge and the outer side of the data carrier proceeding from a common side, without a spatial location of the data carrier being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Riedl, Günter Endres, Klaus Kohl, Thorsten Sauer
  • Method for producing color secure identification document and color secure identification document thereof
    Patent number: 11148448
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of secure identification document, specifically to a method for producing a color secure identification document and a color secure identification document thereof. The method comprises: etching identity information on the substrate of the data surface of document by laser, and the identity information comprises a black-and-white image and text information; printing a color image on the black-and-white image with color ink so that the color image and the black-and-white image are aligned and coincide with each other to form a personalized data surface; and printing a transparent protective layer on the upper surface of the personalized data surface with a transparent varnish, wherein the protective layer covers the color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN EMPEROR TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Song Zheng, Xiaohong Tang, Xiaojun Jiang, Jiange Feng, Yongbing Hu