New patent issued
I'm happy to announce that I've received notice that my fifth U.S. Patent has just been issued. It is U.S. Patent Number 7,620,815 and is entitled "Credential production using a secured consumable supply".
This patent is based on some work I did back at Fargo Electronics (which was acquired by HID Global) -- Fargo was a designer and developer of plastic ID card printers and we had a need to securely control how particular cards were to be issued at the end user's location. We used an RFID tag on the printable ribbon substrate that could be encoded during the production process with a unique ID code. This digital code would then be read by the end user's printer when the ribbon was inserted into the printer. The code on the ribbon cartridge would then need to match the same code that had been installed in the printer before the printing process would be enabled.
I'm proud to be part of the team that developed this technology for Fargo.
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