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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1996
Bradford Drake West, La Jolla, CA (US);
Greg A Burg, San Diego, CA (US);
Steven James Adamson, Poway, CA (US);
Frederick Rockwell Chamberlain, IV, Vista, CA (US);
Tomasz Mark Jagielinski, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Frederick John Jeffers, Escondido, CA (US);
Robert Owen James, Rochester, NY (US);
Neil Smith, San Diego, CA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A credit and access control card and reader system comprising: a magnetically encodable card comprising a body having upper and lower surfaces and side and end edges, the body being formed of plastic material having magnetic particles uniformly dispersed throughout the plastic material; and a reader having a magneto resistive (MR) head for reading the magnetically encodable card as it is moved past the MR head.