US Patent Issued to Toppan Security on April 14 for "Personalizable security document and method of manufacturing the same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,160, issued on April 14, was assigned to Toppan Security SAS (Paris).

"Personalizable security document and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Arnaud Calmet (Fanjeaux, France), Mathieu Loncle (Bordeaux, France) and Nipun Sharma (Suresnes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personalizable security document including a combination of two secure features, namely, a laser-engravable material embedded in a substrate of the security document and an embossed pattern formed in an outer surface of the substrate and overlapping the laser-engravable material. The combination of the laser-engravable material and the embossed...