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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Elliot John Patrick Sather, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amish Babu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Staples, Petaluma, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, CA (US);
James M. Mckelvey, Miami, FL (US);
Elliot John Patrick Sather, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amish Babu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Staples, Petaluma, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, CA (US);
James M. McKelvey, Miami, FL (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A small card reader has a read head with a slot and positioned in a housing. The read head is configured to be coupled to a mobile device. The read head reads data on the magnetic stripe from a card that is slid in the slot and produces an output jack signal indicative of data stored on the magnetic stripe. An output jack is adapted to be inserted in a port of the mobile device and deliver the output jack signal to the mobile device. The read head positioned to accommodate rocking of a card while being swept in the slot while producing a successful read of the magnetic stripe of the card. The rocking is in an amount of 1 to 10 degrees of rotation of a bottom surface of the card away from a bottom surface of the slot.