Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Ian Cairns

Geoffrey Ian Cairns has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210073821
    Abstract: Payment devices and the systems and methods for securely managing financial transactions using the payment devices are provided. In one implementation, a portable proxy device comprises a memory configured to store a plurality of credentials. Each of the plurality of credentials pertains to one of a financial credential, an identification credential, or contractual credential. The portable proxy device also includes at least one interface, wherein each of the at least one interface is configured to communicate one of the plurality of credentials to an external device to complete one of a financial function, identification function, or contractual function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: VERRENCY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Cairns, Kenneth Mages, Jan Drake, Daniel J. MacDonald, Scott Charles Baisch, Alex Benjamin Engelberg, Paul Murray, Alan J. Morgan
  • Patent number: 10846700
    Abstract: Payment devices and the systems and methods for securely managing financial transactions using the payment devices are provided. In one implementation, a portable proxy device comprises a memory configured to store a plurality of credentials. Each of the plurality of credentials pertains to one of a financial credential, an identification credential, or contractual credential. The portable proxy device also includes at least one interface, wherein each of the at least one interface is configured to communicate one of the plurality of credentials to an external device to complete one of a financial function, identification function, or contractual function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VERRENCY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Cairns, Kenneth Mages, Jan Drake, Daniel J. MacDonald, Scott Charles Baisch, Alex Benjamin Engelberg, Paul Murray, Alan J. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20170076291
    Abstract: Payment devices and the systems and methods for securely managing financial transactions using the payment devices are provided. In one implementation, a portable proxy device comprises a memory configured to store a plurality of credentials. Each of the plurality of credentials pertains to one of a financial credential, an identification credential, or contractual credential. The portable proxy device also includes at least one interface, wherein each of the at least one interface is configured to communicate one of the plurality of credentials to an external device to complete one of a financial function, identification function, or contractual function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Cairns, Kenneth Mages, Jan Drake, Daniel J. MacDonald, Scott Charles Baisch, Alex Benjamin Engelberg, Paul Murray, Alan J. Morgan
  • Publication number: 20130206841
    Abstract: A multilayered foil laminate NFC-enabled sticker with a scratchable Faraday Pouch, which will prevent a user from reading the NFC data on a card unless the sticker is scratched off. The card includes an outside of the card next to scratchable Faraday cover made up of a foil laminate, which can be removed to expose the RFID readable data. The next layer is an adhesive that attaches the foil laminate, which attaches to the RFID/NFC Data sticker that contains the IC and antenna. This is followed by another adhesive that attaches to another Faraday layer followed by an optional printing layer on which custom messages and designs can be printed on a substrate material, which is on the outside of the sticker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Geoffrey Ian Cairns