Positive identification method and structure
OwnerPhilip Lawrence Samisinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method to assist in the identification of a living body which comprises selecting a carrier, transcribing information as to the identity of the body on the carrier, and fixing the carrier to a hard mineralized portion of the body. The structure includes a miniaturized carrier of relatively inert material and having identifying intelligence thereon, wherein the carrier is adapted to be fixed or otherwise embedded on hard mineralized tissue of the body.
Claims27
An identification means adapted for use in living bodies and more particularly to be embedded in a cavity in a highly mineralized portion of the body comprising a carrier made up of a substrate of relatively hard inert material having a high melting point at least as high as the highly mineralized portion of the body into which it is to be embedded;
- an etchable layer of an inert material on said substrate and including identifying intelligence etched thereon, said identification means including locating means.
A method for providing positive identification of a living body comprising:
- a. providing a hard, highly mineralized portion of the body with a cavity,
- b. placing identifying intelligence on a radiographically detectable carrier,
- c. embedding the carrier in the cavity whereby the carrier is completely within the mineralized portion of the body such as to lend a high degree of heat and impact protection to the carrier.
A method for positive identification of a living person, including the steps of selecting a carrier of relatively inert material and of miniaturized dimensions, applying identification intelligence corresponding to the person on said carrier, selecting a tooth of the person and excavating a suitable cavity in said tooth, locating said miniaturized carrier in the cavity formed in said tooth, closing said cavity, ensuring that the carrier is detectable radigraphically;
- in subsequent necessity of identification taking an X-ray of the person's teeth, detecting the carrier by X-ray and locating the tooth in which the carrier is embedded, retrieving the carrier from said tooth and reading the identifying information from the carrier.
A method for providing positive identification of a living body comprising:
- a. forming a cavity in a tooth of the living body,
- b. placing identifying intelligence on a radiographically detectable carrier,
- c. inserting the carrier in the cavity of the tooth,
- d. covering the carrier within the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.