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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1994
Jeffrey L. Hill, Mundelein, IL (US);
Gregory S. Hill, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Robert J. Bretl, Menominee, MI (US);
Fred J. Kassabian, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Dymetics Engineering Corporation, Inc., Lincolnshine, IL (US);
Abstract
An embossed card package production system with a computer controller ( ) for accessing embossed card information in a card data memory ( ) and embosser ( ) for embossing a card ( ) with the stored embossed information and an embossed card verification system with an embossed card character reader ( ) for reading embossed information ( ) on the card with the computer controller comparing the read embossed information on the card ( ) with the stored embossed information for the card in the card data memory ( ) to determine if there is a match and automatically identifies each card which has embossed information on the card which does not match the stored information on the card to reject each card identified as being incorrectly produced.