US 2008/0164322 A1 · LAMINATE SECURITY FEATURE

Abstract

Laminates are provided which are to be laminated onto identification documents, for example cards or passports, to provide protection for the document. Each laminate is provided with a unique code. The codes on the laminates can be read and stored with cardholder data. After issuance, the code can be read and then the stored codes accessed to determine whether or not the code, and the associated card, is correct. The codes can also be provided to the user of the laminate roll to be stored in a database accessible by the personalization equipment. The equipment can then read each code, and check the code against the database to determine whether the code is proper. If the code is not proper, the equipment operator can be alerted to that fact, and suitable action taken.

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Dependent claims

A laminate for a personalized identification document, comprising:

a protective material substrate that is intended to be permanently fixed to a surface of the personalized identification document, the protective material substrate being made of a material suitable to protect the document against degradation and wear when the substrate is fixed to the document surface, and the material permitting viewing of information on the document surface underneath the substrate;
the protective substrate including a readable, pre-verification unique indicator code not assigned to card data;
wherein the pre-verification unique indicator code verifies the laminate prior to attaching the laminate to a personalized identification document.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Laminate security feature

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