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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:
Amatech Group Limited, Spiddal, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
AmaTech Group Limited, Galway, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/07773 (2013.01); G06K 19/06196 (2013.01); G06K 19/07743 (2013.01);
Abstract
A metal smartcard (SC) having a transponder chip module (TCM) with a module antenna (MA), and a card body (CB) comprising two discontinuous metal layers (ML), each layer having a slit (S) overlapping the module antenna, the slits being oriented differently than one another. One metal layer can be a front card body (FCB, CF), and the other layer may be a rear card body (RCB, CF) having a magnetic stripe (MS) and a signature panel (SP). The slits in the metal layers may have non-linear shapes.