US Patent Issued to CompoSecure on May 13 for "Transaction and ID cards having selected texture and coloring" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,514, issued on May 13, was assigned to CompoSecure LLC (Somerset, N.J.).

"Transaction and ID cards having selected texture and coloring" was invented by John Herslow (Bridgewater, N.J.), Adam Lowe (Somerset, N.J.) and Luis Dasilva (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cards made in accordance with the invention include a specially treated thin decorative layer attached to a thick core layer of metal or ceramic material, where the thin decorative layer is designed to provide selected color(s) and/or selected texture(s) to a surface of the metal cards. Decorative layers for use in practicing the invention include: (a) an an...