Patents by Inventor William Pierce Abrams, JR.

William Pierce Abrams, JR. 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).

  • System and method for securing payment instruments
    Patent number: 8626656
    Abstract: A system and method for securing financial information in payment instruments including generating a pseudorandom number sequence, generating an activation code, including a unique pseudorandom number of the sequence with each payment instrument of a plurality of payment instruments and issuing the plurality of payment instruments with the activation code to a customer. The activation code is associated with customer identifying information and each unique pseudorandom number of the sequence included with each payment instrument of the plurality of payment instrument. The plurality of payment instruments is activated with the activation code. A received payment instrument of the plurality of payment instruments is authenticated if the customer and the unique pseudorandom number of the sequence included on the received payment instrument are authenticated and if the plurality of payment instruments are activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: ING Direct N.V.
    Inventors: William Pierce Abrams, Jr., James John Kelly, Robert Dean Rowley, III, Todd Adam Sandler, Daniel Lloyd Struble, Rudolph Christian Wolfs
  • System and method for securing payment instruments
    Publication number: 20110270750
    Abstract: A system and method for securing financial information in payment instruments including generating a pseudorandom number sequence, generating an activation code, including a unique pseudorandom number of the sequence with each payment instrument of a plurality of payment instruments and issuing the plurality of payment instruments with the activation code to a customer. The activation code is associated with customer identifying information and each unique pseudorandom number of the sequence included with each payment instrument of the plurality of payment instrument. The plurality of payment instruments is activated with the activation code. A received payment instrument of the plurality of payment instruments is authenticated if the customer and the unique pseudorandom number of the sequence included on the received payment instrument are authenticated and if the plurality of payment instruments are activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: ING Direct, fsb
    Inventors: William Pierce Abrams, JR., James John Kelly, Robert Dean Rowley, III, Todd Adam Sandler, Daniel Lloyd Struble, Rudolph Christian Wolfs