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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2001
John A. Robertson, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Ken R. Vaughn, Kingston, OH (US);
Christopher D. Speakman, Greenfield, OH (US);
Edward S. O'Neal, Rockbridge, OH (US);
Infosight Corporation, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Abstract
Method for identifying an object having a surface of a given color associates a colored zone with the surface of the object. The zone is machine readably contrasting in color compared to the surface color. The colored zone is ablatively imaging to produce one or more of machine readable images, human readable images, or graphics. The contrast in color between the colored zone and the surface is machine readable. Advantageously, at least two colored zones are associated with the object to be identified. One or more of these colored zones can be ablatively marked. One or more of these colored zones also can be used to sort and/or identify the object by color.