US Patent Issued to Entrust on Sept. 1 for "Personalized identification document processing systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,399, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Personalized identification document processing systems and methods" was invented by Roman Knipp (Shakopee, Minn.), Pauline Ukpabi (Shakopee, Minn.), Utpal Vaidya (Shakopee, Minn.), Ryan Schwiderski (Shakopee, Minn.) and Matthew Stebbins (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalized identification document processing system includes a print station that includes a thermal print head and a print ribbon that is engageable by the thermal print head to thermally transfer material from the print ribbon to personalize the plastic identification docum...