US Patent Issued to InterActive Cards on May 27 for "Method for making advanced metal cores for metal cards" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,791, issued on May 27, was assigned to InterActive Cards Inc. (Lakeland, Fla.).

"Method for making advanced metal cores for metal cards" was invented by Michael Scruggs (Lakeland, Fla.), Lee Shaye Kirkland (Lakeland, Fla.) and Jerry Michael West (Lakeland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic core for a metal card, such as a transaction card, having a metal core and a cured polymer top surface, is manufactured by a process in which a two-part polymer mixture is introduced to a reservoir holding the metal core in a process chamber, and then a partial vacuum followed by pressurization with inert gas are used to reduce the ...