Transaction cards with tactile features and methods of making and using thereof
AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC
InventorEldon Harmon
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Abstract
In some embodiments, a product includes a card having a front face, a back face and a payment-enabling mechanism, where the front face is opposite to the back face. Account information is disposed on the front face, the back face, or both, in a tactile writing system, as well as one or more card identification texture strips. The one or more card identification texture strips each comprise at least one region having a texture pattern different from a base texture of the card, where the texture pattern comprises a roughness texture pattern, and where the texture pattern is unique to an issuer of the card.
Claims20
A product, comprising
- a card having a front face, a back face and a payment-enabling mechanism;
- wherein the front face is opposite to the back face;
- account information markings disposed on the front face, the back face, or both;
- wherein the account information markings comprise a tactile writing system;
- and
- one or more card identification texture strips each comprising a strip-shaped texture region across at least a portion of the front face, the back face, or both;
- wherein the one or more card identification texture strips comprises a texture filling the strip-shaped texture region that is different from a base texture of the front face, the back face, or both;
- wherein the texture filling the strip-shaped texture region comprises:
- i) a recession below a plane of the front face, the back face, or both, and
- ii) surface protrusions extending within the recession so as to form a pattern of roughness filling the strip-shaped texture region of the one or more card identification texture strips;
- and
- wherein the texture is unique to an issuer of the card.
A product, comprising
- a card having a front face, a back face and a payment-enabling mechanism;
- wherein the front face is opposite to the back face;
- and
- two card identification texture strips each comprising a strip-shaped texture region across at least a portion of the card;
- wherein the two card identification texture strips each comprise:
- i) a recession below a plane of the front face, the back face, or both, and
- ii) surface protrusions extending within the recession so as to form a pattern of roughness filling the strip-shaped texture region of the one or more card identification texture strips.
A method comprising:
- etching a texture into one or more strip-shaped texture regions on a front face, a back face or both, of a card to form one or more card identification texture strips;
- wherein the texture of the one or more strip-shaped texture regions is different from a base texture of the card, and is unique to an issuer of the card;
- wherein the texture of the one or more strip-shaped texture regions each comprise:
- i) a recession below a plane of the front face, the back face, or both, and
- ii) surface protrusions extending within the recession so as to form a pattern of roughness filling each strip-shaped texture region of the one or more strip-shaped texture regions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.