Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for imprinting a document with secure, machine readable information

US4852478A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 24, 1987
Grant dateAug 1, 1989
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Expiry dateMar 24, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB44B5/0009
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An imprinter for imprinting a document with two lines of information forming two rows of alphanumeric characters wherein the two rows of imprinted characters have corresponding characters and corresponding relative character positions such that each line contains the same informational content, one of the lines of rows being substantially tamperproof and the other being machine readable.

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