Patents Examined by Tuyen Vo
  • Patent number: 8033454
    Abstract: A self-service terminal comprises a fascia defining an aperture through which a receipt or other type of media items is dispensible to a customer. The fascia comprises a protrusion located immediately beneath the aperture in a generally central location. The protrusion comprises a lower surface against which a customer's finger may rest and an upper surface for guiding an exiting receipt or other type of media item. The protrusion extends outwardly from the fascia to ensure that even if the customer places a finger on the protrusion, opposing edges of the receipt or other media item exit a sufficient distance from the aperture to allow the receipt or other media item to be visible to and removed by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Alexander S. MacDonald
  • Patent number: 8033477
    Abstract: The invention relates to identification documents, and in particular to providing optically variable personalized data to identification documents. In one implementation, we provide an identification document comprising a document layer and a first indicium. The document layer comprises a material capable of being printed by a thermally transferable optically variable ink. The first indicium is printed on the document layer and comprises personalized data and printed to the document layer by a thermally transferred optically variable ink. The first indicium may be printed to the document layer by disposing a thermally transferable optically variable ink in a mass transfer panel of a printer ribbon adapted for use in a dye diffusion thermal transfer printer, and printing the first indicium as part of a mass transfer printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Jones, Daoshen Bi, Charles F. Duggan, Nelson T. Schneck