Label Patents (Class 283/81)
  • Patent number: 12033539
    Abstract: A privacy label system includes a sheet of label material configured to be removably attached to a container of a product in an unfolded layer configuration. The label material includes a top surface area configured to receive personal information of a recipient of the product and an opposing bottom surface area configured to receive advertising information associated with the product. An attachment system of the privacy label system is operable to removably attach the label material to the container in an unfolded layer configuration such that the bottom surface area is positioned between the top surface area and the container, once the label material is attached to the container. The label material is operable to be removed from the container by the recipient by hand, in order to remove the personal information from the container and to reveal the advertising information to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PRIVACY TAB, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Powhida, Larry Frederick
  • Patent number: 11799647
    Abstract: A physical card (in some cases without any on-board source of power or computing capabilities) is configured to maintain access information for digital bearer assets. The physical card may include disposed thereon a single address operable to receive digital bearer assets in one or more transactions on a decentralized computing platform, like a blockchain-based decentralized computing platform. Other decentralized computing platforms utilize different address generation protocols, thus preventing use of a single address on those other platforms. A set of addresses is generated, each address corresponding to a given decentralized computing platform. Each address is based on a same underlying key-pair, and a primary address is selected from the set for a given card. The remaining addresses in the set are stored, without storage of the public key or private key, and returned in a response to a request for additional addresses of the currency card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ballet Global Inc.
    Inventor: Bobby Christopher Lee
  • Patent number: 11587469
    Abstract: An indicator is provided that can couple, without a fastener, to a housing of an industrial device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Jaap, Andrew E. Carlson
  • Patent number: 11508264
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a label with a suspension handle includes providing a first layered material including a support layer and a releasable first front layer. A front surface of the first front layer is coated with a first detachment promoter layer, leaving a zone free of the first promoter layer. A handle area of the first promoter layer is coated with a second detachment promoter layer. A second layered material includes a second front layer and an adhesive layer. While the second detachment promoter layer is wet, the components are coupled, so the adhesive layer adheres to the free zone. The second detachment promoter layer-adhesive layer solidifies to bind the layers. In the second layer thickness, a suspension handle is separated from the handle area. A secondary label is superposed only over the first layer detachment promoter, and forms a label surround in the first front layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: PILOT ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giancarlo Vimercati
  • Patent number: 11423808
    Abstract: In accordance with the present application, there is provided a release liner and method of preparing a liner for a label assembly. The release liner includes paper having a first side that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish or a coating; and a silicone treatment applied to the first side of the paper. The method of preparing a liner for a label assembly includes applying a coat of silicone to a paper at a side of the paper that does not have a machine finish or gloss finish and is otherwise uncoated; and curing the silicone. The release liner includes paper having a silicone coat weight of 0.5 lb/ream or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Labelcraft Products Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian Tomlinson
  • Patent number: 11373556
    Abstract: A shipping label is formed of a single ply and is configured to be removably adhered to a liner. The shipping label has a front face configured for the printing of indicia. The label has a back face having a first strip of adhesive, a second strip of adhesive, and a printable area. The first and second adhesive strips respectively extend along a top edge and a bottom edge of the shipping label. The printable area is between the first and second adhesive strips. The liner associated with the shipping label is configured to be removably secured to the first and second adhesive strips. The printable area is adapted to be printed while the liner is removably secured to the first and second adhesive strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Ward-Kraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Phil Quick, Roger Kraft, Jesse Crum
  • Patent number: 11371753
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a water heater. The method includes capturing, with a mobile device a scannable feature of a rating plate, establishing a network connection between the mobile device and a server, transmitting information captured from the scannable feature by the mobile device to the server over the network connection, receiving from the server to the mobile device a plurality of water heater configurations in response to the information, receiving, with the mobile device, an input indicative of a configuration selection selected from the plurality of water heater configurations, and transmitting configuration information from the mobile device to the water heater to configure the water heater based on the configuration selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: A. O. SMITH CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Matthew Schulz, Carl Edward McDow, Steven J. Wilcox, Michael Schultz
  • Patent number: 11295190
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable data storage apparatus provide automated identification techniques that seamlessly and accurately bridge the differences between different identification systems to enable more useful and advanced product and service offerings, such as realtime tracking of shipment location and status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventors: Hendrik J Volkerink, Ajay Khoche
  • Patent number: 11285695
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to a label lid for sealing an opening in a packaging container. The label comprises a facestock layer, a removable adhesive layer, a heat-seal layer, and an optional release coating, wherein the removable adhesive layer does not include a release liner. The removable adhesive layer can be coated on the heat-seal layer or the facestock layer. Optionally, a release coating can be applied to the heat-seal layer or the facestock layer. The composition of the layers used in specific arrangements provides unique performance characteristics for the label for improved sealing, reclosure, and matrix stripping properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory P. Brumbaugh, Scott S. Super, Yijun Ye
  • Patent number: 11261003
    Abstract: Flexible packages for retail sale of rolled tissue products are provided. The flexible package may include a raised area having an overall height of 40-5000 microns disposed on an outside of the package. The raised area may be a separate element from the flexible package. The flexible package may contain at least one rolled tissue product. The rolled tissue product may have a visible pattern of embossing. The flexible package may have a portion thereof that is sufficiently transparent sufficient to enable seeing the visible pattern of embossing. The flexible package may have a portion thereof that is opaque, such that portions of the rolled tissue product cannot be seen from outside of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Edward Daniel Theiss, III, Teofilo Medellin, Hugh Joseph O'Donnell
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11183085
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an anti-counterfeiting device comprising a first sensor configured to undergo a first user perceptible change in response to a first biologically produced stimulus that emanates directly from a biological source; and a second sensor configured to undergo a second user perceptible change in response to a second biologically produced stimulus that emanates directly from the biological source. The second biologically produced stimulus is different than the first biologically produced stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew McGuire, Anastasia D'Orazio, Meet Pravin Vora
  • Patent number: 11024201
    Abstract: A label for a bottle where the label is comprised of a laminate where an outer layer (3) is a material susceptible to losing opaqueness when made wet, and an inner layer (5) behind this first layer which is a material that is opaque, and such that it will maintain such opaqueness when wet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: John Frankhuisen
  • Patent number: 10915858
    Abstract: A computer based system for taking the physical inventory of liquids dispensed in full and partially full containers. A database stores images of containers and their associated volumes. The containers to be inventoried are identified by a user and input to a computer at a graphical user interface (GUI) input/output. A computer causes the display of an image of the container and a sliding level indicator at the GUI. The level indicator is slidable along the image. The computer calculates a volume of liquid remaining in the container as a function of the position of the level indicator along the image of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Nikhil Kundra
  • Patent number: 10901368
    Abstract: A method for integrating a hologram into the body of a security document that has a laminated body. The method includes: providing a holographic film having a backing substrate layer and a photo layer; providing additional substrate layers; carrying out a laminating process in order to form the laminated body, the holographic film together with the additional substrate layers being collated to form a substrate layer stack and being combined, together with the additional substrate layers, in a high-pressure, high-temperature laminating method to form the laminated body. There is also described a corresponding security document body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Michael Stasiak, Michael Knebel, Andre Leopold, Olga Kulikovska, Enrico Orselli, Thomas Roelle, Wieland Hovestadt, Dennis Hoenel
  • Patent number: 10788154
    Abstract: An infusion line management system is provided, including a label generating device receiving prescription information for one or more patient prescriptions, the received information being used to generate, for each of the one or more prescriptions, a label including a master label and one or more sub-labels related to the corresponding prescription; each master label includes at least information related to the prescription and an indicator identifying a particular portion of a patient infusion system to which the prescription should be connected; and the one or more sub-labels each include the indicator, the one or more sub-labels being individually removable from the master label and affixable to locations throughout the patient infusion system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Dudar, Steven Clarence Jepson
  • Patent number: 10771926
    Abstract: A package tracking system method utilizes a GPS-enabled tracking device which is securable within a given package to be shipped. The tracking device is configured to permit the device to be followed online by an authorized user. The tracking device further permits deep penetration of the tracking signal through a given unit of packaging material and also incorporates a tampering indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Peggy J. Carr
  • Patent number: 10713976
    Abstract: A multiple wrap label has a first wrap portion extending from a first end and having a first width, and a second wrap portion extending from the first wrap portion to a second end, the second wrap portion having a second width greater than the first width, the second wrap portion extending over and enclosing the first wrap portion when the label is applied to a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: CCL Label, Inc.
    Inventor: Ulrich E. Weyermann
  • Patent number: 10710762
    Abstract: A process of producing printed variably imaged labels cut to individual label sheets in a pre-defined sequence of variable information synchronized with the planogram of a retail store for labeling, output from a factory assembly line for unique product labeling or labeling of shipments from a fulfillment or distribution warehouse that all have unique data and follow a planogram or planned sequence. The labels are cut into single sheets using a cutter/stacker and either use a crack and peel liner or a stripped matrix around the label to facilitate easy removal and application. The cutter/stacker processes converted label stock that is either pre-printed and die cut and/or variably imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: POLYMERIC CONVERTING LLC
    Inventor: Peter J. Dronzek, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10654607
    Abstract: A system for applying labels to cable or conduit including at least one label and a label applicator. The label applicator including at least one guide roller, at least one tamping device comprising at least one tamping pad for applying at least one label onto the moving cable or conduit, and a guide shoe assembly. The guide shoe assembly comprises a guide shoe, the guide shoe comprises a rounding member, a plurality of springs for providing flexibility to the rounding member when the moving cable or conduit passes the at least one guide shoe, a support mount for supporting the at least one guide shoe, a plurality of pivots disposed between the rounding member and the rounding member support for adjusting the set of springs, and a fitted member for providing an anchor for the at least one guide shoe to connect with the support mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Encore Wire Corporation
    Inventors: Mark D. Bennett, William T. Bigbee, Jr., Stephen S. Griffin
  • Patent number: 10638571
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for marking luminaires, particularly traffic route luminaires, in a luminaire network, the network being controllable via a server. Each luminaire is provided, in its operational state, with a controller (2) for controlling its operation and a mark that is visually recognizable from the outside the luminaire. The mark is formed by an information storage medium (4), in particular, and can be used to identify the luminaire. The mark is linked to the controller (2) or to the luminaire to be controlled by the controller before the mark is added to the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SCHREDER
    Inventors: Daniel Brand, Jörg Richter, Helmut Schröder, Didier Wellens
  • Patent number: 10607124
    Abstract: Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Patent number: 10588481
    Abstract: A system including a tag for placement within a dishwasher to indicate at least one of a running of a dishwasher run cycle and/or a clean condition of items placed within the dishwasher upon completion of the cycle. A tag body is supported within an interior rack location of the dishwasher so that a surface of the body is visible. A patch of material is formed upon the surface of the tag body and constructed of a dissolvable material. The patch is caused to be dissolved upon activation of a wash cycle of the dishwasher to indicate the clean condition of the items adapted to being placed in the dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Bussell
  • Patent number: 10504387
    Abstract: A label for use with an intravenous bag having a surface and an interior volume for holding a solution in fluid communication with an intravenous line for dispensing the solution, where the label includes a back layer including an adhesive for securing the label to a surface of the intravenous bag, a front layer with a solution name including a first portion secured to the back layer, the front layer including a second portion removable from the back layer engageable with the intravenous line with the solution name on a first side and a second side. In some constructions, the solution name on the second side is inverted with respect to the solution name on the first side, and the second portion further includes an opening for viewing a portion of the intravenous line when the second portion is engaged with the intravenous line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: PharMEDium Services, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Nordquist, Steven M. Maraone, Daane E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10385239
    Abstract: Various carton sealing tapes are disclosed that have a plurality of security features, at least two of which include nanomarker particles having identification indicia visible under about 100 to about 400 times magnification and taggants visible upon exposure to a pre-selected wavelength outside the visible spectrum included in the same or different layers of the tape structure depending upon the selection of the backing material for the substrate of the tape. The carton sealing tapes are also printable for inclusion of a consecutive sequence of coded identification information in the form of a barcode or a 2D code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Intertape Polymer Corp.
    Inventors: Shawn P. Nelson, James Apap Bologna, Allison Duffy, Jeffrey Scott Coats
  • Patent number: 10373530
    Abstract: A label for use with an intravenous bag having a surface and an interior volume for holding a solution in fluid communication with an intravenous line for dispensing the solution, where the label includes a back layer including an adhesive for securing the label to a surface of the intravenous bag, a front layer with a solution name including a first portion secured to the back layer, the front layer including a second portion removable from the back layer engageable with the intravenous line with the solution name on a first side and a second side. In some constructions, the solution name on the second side is inverted with respect to the solution name on the first side, and the second portion further includes an opening for viewing a portion of the intravenous line when the second portion is engaged with the intravenous line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: PHARMEDIUM SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Nordquist, Steven M. Maraone, Daane E. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10318962
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of multi-layer identifier labels. In one embodiment, a multi-layer identifier label includes an upper layer bearing a public identifier, a lower layer bearing a private identifier, and an adhesive backing below the lower layer. The upper layer may be removably attached to the lower layer, and the lower layer may be non-visible underneath the upper layer. Peeling away the upper layer to reveal the lower layer may be a tamper-evident action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yair Rivlin, Samuel Pike Hall, VI
  • Patent number: 10310431
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming section configured to form an image onto a recording medium in which sheets are laminated via an adhesive layer; a detection unit configured to detect an amount of an adhesive adhered beyond both edges of the recording medium in a width direction orthogonal to a transport direction; and a control unit configured to calculate a correction amount for correcting an image formation condition for the image forming section on the basis of a difference in the amount of the adhesive on both edges of the recording medium in the width direction detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kusunoki, Katsuya Toyofuku, Kimio Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 10307548
    Abstract: A tracking system for medical devices which may include a closure and a container and a method for implementation the tracking system. Packaging removably retains the closure therein and a label is connected to the closure in an at least initially reduced orientation within the packaging. The packaging is structured for receipt of at least a portion of the container to establish an attached relation to the closure, whereupon the attached closure and container are concurrently removed from the packaging. The label is disposed in an expanded orientation and connected to both the closure and the container and includes a coded identifier having at least first and second coded segments. The coded identifier, including the first and second coded segments, include coded indicia may be machine readable and structured to define an identifying, matching relation of the closure and the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy Brandon Hunt, Jonathan J. Vitello
  • Patent number: 10209265
    Abstract: A chain-of-custody form has integrated removable specimen seals, and the form may be used to identify a test sample collected from a donor and to document the handling of the test sample. The form may be printed upon a single sheet that has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first section having one or more spaces for recording demographic and testing information, and one or more indicia of the information to be recorded in one or more marked spaces; and a second section having a marked space for the donor to affix a signature and one or more indicia of the purpose of the space. An identifier that is unique to the form is recorded within the first portion and within the second portion. The identifier includes an specimen identification number or some other method of specimen identification such as a bar-code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Quest Diagnostics Investments Incorporated
    Inventors: R. H. Barry Sample, Eric Quilter
  • Patent number: 10183520
    Abstract: A multiple-ply label roll includes end-to-end labels. Each label is operable to be adhesively applied to a substrate and includes top and bottom label plies. The bottom label ply includes an outer removable border portion defined between interior and outer ply edges and removable from the top label ply in a removal direction. The interior ply edge includes spaced apart side edges that extend along the removal direction to define a pair of spaced apart side sections of the removable portion. The interior ply edge includes a generally transverse end edge interconnecting the side edges to define an end section of the removable portion, with the end section extending between the side sections and being removed generally after the side sections when the removable portion is removed in the removal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Premier Print & Services Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Bruce Raming
  • Patent number: 10186173
    Abstract: A label for a bottle where the label is comprised of a laminate where an outer layer (3) is a material susceptible to losing opaqueness when made wet, and an inner layer (5) behind this first layer which is a material that is opaque, and such that it will maintain such opaqueness when wet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignees: Collotype Services Pty Ltd., Avery Dennison Materials Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: John Frankhuisen
  • Patent number: 10133967
    Abstract: The present invention provides a card which may be issued smoothly. The member card 2 comprises the base material layer 21 having the light transmittable base material and the printing layer 22, and wherein the first information 2201 to be confirmed from the first surface 21a of the base material layer 21 and the second information 2202 to be confirmed from the second surface 21b of the base material layer 21 are only printed on one surface of the base material layer 21. In the base material layer 21, the region which is printed with the second information 2202 is light transmittable region, and the second information 2202 may be visually recognized from the second surface 21b of the base material layer 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Noritoshi Kukita
  • Patent number: 10127520
    Abstract: A computer based system for taking the physical inventory of liquids dispensed in full and partially full containers. A database stores images of containers and their associated volumes. The containers to be inventoried are identified by a user and input to a computer at a graphical user interface (GUI) input/output. A computer causes the display of an image of the container and a sliding level indicator at the GUI. The level indicator is slidable along the image. The computer calculates a volume of liquid remaining in the container as a function of the position of the level indicator along the image of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventor: Nikhil Kundra
  • Patent number: 10121393
    Abstract: A window cling has a metalized laminate affixed to a surface of a base sheet by an adhesive. The opposite side of the base sheet can be coated with a low-tack adhesive and covered with a release liner which can be peeled away for affixing the window cling to the glass of a window. Where the base sheet is a static cling it can be applied directly to the glass without an adhesive. An image of text and/or graphics can be printed on the exposed surface of the metalized laminate unreversed. Where the base sheet is transparent, another image of text and/or graphics can be printed on a surface of the base sheet reversed before affixation of the printed base sheet surface to the metalized laminate for viewing unreversed through the unprinted side of the transparent base sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventor: Jeffrey W Snyder
  • Patent number: 10113081
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coating is provided, which includes applying a primer paint on a substrate, wherein the primer paint includes 100 parts by weight of a first PVF, 30-70 parts by weight of an assistance resin, 5-30 parts by weight of a curing agent, 100-120 parts by weight of a first latent solvent, 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol, and water. The first latent solvent, 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol, and water have a weight ratio of 60:10-20:40-60. The method also applies a finish paint on the primer paint, wherein the finish paint includes 100 parts by weight of a second PVF, 100-120 parts by weight of a second latent solvent, 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol, and water, wherein the second latent solvent, 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol, and water have a weight ratio of 50:10-20:30-60. The primer paint and the finish paint are baked and dried to form a coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: GRAND TEK ADVANCE MATERIAL SCIENCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsueh-Tso Lin, Rui-Gang Hou, Dick Zhong
  • Patent number: 10102470
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electrical circuit board. It includes the provision of a sheet of electrically conductive material and a layer of adhesive material. In order to have a color appear in spaces cut or etched into the sheet of electrically conductive material, the adhesive material includes a coloring agent. The invention also relates to an electrical circuit board for a smart card, which circuit board is manufactured using this method, and a smart card including such an electrical circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Linxens Holding
    Inventors: Mara Coppola, Yannick De Maquille, Fabien Marcq
  • Patent number: 10017000
    Abstract: A phosphor-containing identification substance of the present invention includes a substrate and a phosphor-containing silicone thin layer. The whole or part of the surface of the substrate is covered with the phosphor-containing silicone thin layer. The phosphor has identification properties that the phosphor emits light when irradiated with ultraviolet rays or black light, and does not emit light when irradiated with visible rays. A method for producing the phosphor-containing identification substance of the present invention includes bringing a silicone composition for forming a phosphor-containing thin layer into contact with the substrate after or simultaneously with the molding of the substrate, followed by heating. This provides the phosphor-containing identification substance that can be applied to a silicone thin film, has excellent adhesive properties with the substrate, and maintains the inherent properties of the substrate without being impaired by marking, and the method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Fuji Polymer Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Saruyama, Makoto Goto, Takumi Kataishi
  • Patent number: 9994061
    Abstract: A security document has a substrate (1) with a foil element (6) applied to it. The foil element (6) includes a security feature, such as a diffractive structure (12), for example a hologram. To easily detect a removal of the foil element (6) using conventional detection devices, markings (4, 14, 15) intersecting with the foil element (6) are printed onto the top surface (7) of the foil element (6), the bottom surface (8) of the foil element (6), or onto the substrate (1), thus that they are removed together with the foil element (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ORELL FUSSLI SICHERHEITSDRUCK AG
    Inventors: Martin Eichenberger, Hendrik Wiermer
  • Patent number: 9994374
    Abstract: A packaging wrapper is made of material having inner and outer laminate structures bonded together. A peelable flap is defined in the wrapper by means of offset score lines in the laminate structures, the structures being bonded together in a marginal region between the score lines by means of a peelable adhesive. In one aspect of the invention, the score lines are formed using a pair of contra-rotating die cylinders positioned on opposite sides of the laminated film Each cylinder contacts a respective laminate structure and has a blade for forming a score line in that structure. In another aspect, the laminate structures are bonded together using a single peelable adhesive both within and outside of the marginal region. In a further aspect, the structures are not bonded together in at least part of the marginal region to provide a lifting tab for the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Cadbury UK Limited
    Inventors: Jason Denis Willey, Parbinder Cheema
  • Patent number: 9984596
    Abstract: A cylindrical shrink label is provided with a heat-shrinkable label base material; and a joint formed by cylindrically forming the label base material so that the edges thereof overlap, and then solvent welding the inner surface of the outside edge, which is positioned on the outside of the cylinder, and the outer surface of the inside edge, which is positioned on the inside of the cylinder. A resin layer, which is soluble in a hot alkaline aqueous solution, is formed on the abovementioned inner surface and/or the abovementioned outer surface, which form the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Fuji Seal International, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kyogane, Satoru Kawasaki, Akira Miyazaki, Shutaro Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 9908359
    Abstract: An extended content booklet label having a substrate, a folded booklet and overlaminate. The overlaminate is applied to secure the multi-up book to the substrate. The area between the booklet and the substrate is devoid of adhesive so that the substrate can conform to the shape of a container without interference from the booklet. The booklet is held closed against the substrate by the overlaminate which extends beyond the booklet to adhere to the substrate or the container. The overlaminate can pivot away from the container to an open position where the booklet can be unfolded to access all of the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: MINIGRAPHICS, INC.
    Inventor: Stephen W. DeLise, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9886612
    Abstract: A system and method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system is disclosed. This system and method includes scanning of a scan track of a document, generating document data dependently upon the scanning, comparing the generated document data to stored document data, the stored document data generated dependently upon a prior scanning of the scan track of the document, and outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Morton Greene
    Inventor: Morton Greene
  • Patent number: 9881524
    Abstract: The present invention includes laminates and a tamper indication system. In some embodiments, the laminate and the tamper indication system may change color to indicate exposure of the laminate to an acrylic-based adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
    Inventors: Sohail Akhter, Anil Kumar Dubey, Amit Sharma
  • Patent number: 9867947
    Abstract: A label (100) in the form of an accessory for a manufactured syringe is provided that has graduations corresponding to volumes within the syringe. The label (100) comprises a flexible generally rectangular elongate sheet (102) of material with adhesive provided on an operatively back surface thereof, the sheet (102) having two parallel major edges (104) extending along the length of the elongate sheet (102) and a first scale (106) visible from an operatively front surface (107) of the label (100) along one of the major edges (104) being a volume indication scale calibrated to align with an existing volume indication scale on the syringe. A second scale (108) is provided adjacent the volume indication scale (106), the second scale (108) being a scale that relates to a patient body weight scale calibrated so that a correct recommended dose of a medicament can be delivered to a patient of a given weight, either during administration of the medicament or during preparation of a mixture to be administered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: Nicholas Appelbaum
  • Patent number: 9868560
    Abstract: Device for affixing a visual marking on a surface to be marked of a rigid support (1) that is ready for use, which comprises an assembly that is essentially inelastic, exhibits a certain degree of flexibility, forms a flat and thin cohesive multilayer stack that includes a protective back (6), a marked support (7), a stencil (8), and an application obverse (9), limited by a peripheral edge (22) with an adhesion of its rear face (23) and of the front face of the stencil (21) that can—during the use of the device (1)—allow the removal of the application obverse (9) by peeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: DISATECH
    Inventor: Christophe Renard
  • Patent number: 9758270
    Abstract: A method of producing a label for a prescription pharmaceutical storage container for holding and dispensing a pharmaceutical for a patient including the steps of providing a label system having a first distinct label section and a second distinct label section; determining whether a length of prescription information and warning information fits entirely on the first distinct label section; upon determining that the length of the prescription information and warning information does not fit entirely on the first distinct label section, printing indicia providing the prescription information on the first distinct label section and at least a portion of the warning information on the second distinct label section; and upon determining that the length of the prescription information fits entirely on the first distinct label section, printing indicia providing the prescription information and the warning information only on the first distinct label section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Tri State Distribution, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Miceli, Joseph A. Miceli
  • Patent number: 9750652
    Abstract: An adhesive cover and method of use in which the cover is well-suited to effectively cover a temporary tattoo utilized in radiation therapy treatments. The cover includes a transparent, flexible layer with an optional rigid layer releasably adhered thereto. The first, flexible layer has a lower adhesive surface, an upper low-adhesion surface and a predefined peripheral edge. The second, rigid layer has a lower surface releasably adhered to the upper low-adhesion surface of the first layer, an opposing upper exposed surface, and a peripheral edge cooperative with the predefined peripheral edge of the first layer to preserve the integrity of the first layer during handling and application. The second layer is removed from the first layer only after the first layer is adhered to a patient's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: BEEKLEY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mark Broyles
  • Patent number: 9630426
    Abstract: A label for use with a slide is provided that has a face stock that carries adhesive and an image that is uncovered. The adhesive, the face stock and the image may be capable of withstanding a temperature of 300 degrees Fahrenheit applied thereto for 24 hours, and may be capable of withstanding a temperature of ?40 degrees Fahrenheit applied thereto for 10 days such that the adhesive still functions and the image is still readable. A method of using a label for the processing of a specimen is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Eastern Business Forms, Inc.
    Inventor: Lester C Bingham
  • Patent number: 9629269
    Abstract: An eletrical wiring device includes a housing having a front outer surface is visible during use and in an installed position, a side surface and a rear surface. Printed indicia is provided on the side surface of the housing or a front surface of the housing for identifying the location of compliance installation instructions for installing the electrical wiring device in a wiring system. The printed indicia is oriented to be visible by the installer during installation of the electrical wiring device and is oriented to be covered by a faceplate after installation of the electrical wiring device. Printed compliance installation instruction indicia is provided on the housing for installing the electrical wiring device in the electrical system. The compliance installation instruction indicia is oriented to be visible by the installer during installation of the electrical wiring device in the electrical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: John P. Goodsell