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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011

Filed:

Jan. 19, 2005
Applicants:

Adrian Paul Burden, Singapore, SG;

Peter Malcolm Moran, Singapore, SG;

Yen Peng Kong, Irvine, CA (US);

Yan Zhao, Shanghai, CN;

Inventors:

Adrian Paul Burden, Singapore, SG;

Peter Malcolm Moran, Singapore, SG;

Yen Peng Kong, Irvine, CA (US);

Yan Zhao, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/08 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is an object () such as a credit card, bank note, document, label, etc which carries an identification layer () which contains readable information. The identification layer can include randomly distributed conductive/magnetizable particles (), semiconductive particle, optically active particles and the like. The identification layer is sandwiched between an upper layer () and lower layer () to form the object. At least some of the particles are exposed along one edge () of the object and can be read by a read head () which moves along the edge.


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