ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,252, issued on Nov. 3.
"Protective portable information-bearing card sleeve" was invented by Laniece Robinson (Detroit).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective portable information-bearing card sleeve used to prevent fraud and credit card theft even while using the card. First and second planar walls disposed in spaced relationship to each other and each having a first edge connected to the first edge of the other wall; said walls being sized and connected so as to form a housing that removably retains the card; wherein the first wall includes a flexible upper portion that permits visible exposure of a first surface of the card by ...