Precious Metals Patent Opportunity
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U.S. Patent 9,501,048
“A System and Method for Customized, On-Demand
Production of Minted Metal and Minted Metal Assemblies”
Why This On-Demand Patent?
First there was Amazon Print-on-Demand Book Publishing.
Next came Uber and on-Demand Travel Services.
Now, there is our Exclusive:
“System and Method for Customized, On-Demand
Production of Minted Metal and Minted Metal Assemblies.”
THE BENEFITS OF OUR
ON-DEMAND PATENT
Complete Customization And Flexibility
High Profit Margins
Licensing to other Established Mints Opportunities
Minimal Inventory So Your Capital Is Not Tied Up
Precious Metals That Create Value
Reduced Risk
Unique Business and Customers
Unlimited Product Combinations
Valuable Collectibles
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Minting involves the process of imprinting precious metals, base metals, and other metals or metal alloys with lettering, images, etc. Traditionally, the metal minting industry has minted or otherwise marked large quantities of products in large lots as it has traditionally been the only cost effective way of producing minted metal due to the high costs of image designs, artwork, hand-design plaster sculpting and engraving, die work, die tooling, manufacturing, stamping, and pressing methods. In particular, the traditional manner of stamping metal is not only costly due to the inherent high expense of materials, but time consuming due to the manufacturing methods used.
The high costs and capital expenditure that is necessary in the traditional stamping methods limits the number of products that can be created, ties up valuable capital with no certainty of selling the products or inventory, prevents the launch of newer and better selling products, precludes the possible revision of the older products, and burdens the publisher, manufacturer or retailer with expensive inventory, storage and insurance costs. In short, the traditional methods put large amounts of capital at risk with no guarantee that the product will sell out to completion, leaving large quantities of unsold inventory and wasted capital.
There is, thus, a need for an on-demand metal minting system and method for minting metal when ordered, when needed, at low costs and only the quantity desired. The proposed system and method will provide a database of selectable data and/or media including size, shape, purities, and weight of certain metal pieces and, in some embodiments, allow the user to select or otherwise input desired text, images, or other decorative elements to be minted onto a selected metal piece. The system will utilize digital printing technology to mint the customized metal pieces with selected, designated, or custom decorative elements, on-demand, meaning as ordered in quantities as few as one, rather than minting excessively large quantities using the traditional, expensive and slow time to market methods. The new, proposed system and method need not preorder or manufacture expensive metal dies or stamps, and instead implements certain digital printing techniques by utilizing devices such as UV printers, UV curable inks, digital printers, digital photo printers, card printers, lasers, markers, engravers, 3-D printers, etchers, and pressure sensitive film printing, which offer high quality image production for imprinted products and allow on-demand production of minted metal pieces.
In certain embodiments, it would also be advantageous to implement the on-demand production of a housing to contain or otherwise combine with the minted metal piece. The housing can be printed, cut, sized, or otherwise customized in any manner on-demand and combined with the customized minted metal piece to produce a minted metal assembly. The housing may be in the form of virtually any encasing, container or wrapping, including, but certainly not limited to a credit card shaped and sized apparatus.
In particular, the proposed on-demand minting system and method allows the manufacturer, producer, or seller to maintain a virtual inventory or database of products, allowing for a larger number of available metals, designs, products, shapes, sizes, purities, etc. that would not be possible using traditional minting or stamping methods. The on-demand system and method allows for a “one-off” minting which permits products to be imprinted or minted on demand for personalization or for manufacturing scarce collectables.
The proposed system and method further provides a much quicker time to market, eliminating the time consuming steps of design, artwork, hand-designed plaster sculpting and engraving, die work, die tooling, manufacturing, stamping and pressing methods. It should also be noted that the proposed on-demand minting system and method would also eliminate costly storage expenses, as products are prepared and minted as needed or as ordered.
Furthermore, the system and method may be used to easily and cost-effectively incrementally fulfill limited minting of products to maximize the collectable value. Moreover, if a product is limited to a strict collectable mintage of only 500 pieces, for example, the proposed on-demand system and method will make it easy and possible to manufacture and sell them one at a time or in small quantities. Accordingly, rather than tying up an investment minting all 500 pieces at once, a publisher could easily launch multiple product offerings, on-demand.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is generally directed to a system and method for the on-demand production of minted metal pieces and minted metal assemblies, as described in detail herein. Particularly, the various embodiments of the present invention comprise an on-demand management system which includes a computer, server, or other device having one or more storage devices, such as a database or organized file system. The storage device or database includes a plurality of data or media pertaining to certain customized or selectable parameters for the minted metal piece or assembly.
For example, the storage device of certain embodiments comprises a plurality of selectable metal data which is structured to define the size, shape, purity, and/or weight of the minted metal piece. The data may also include certain text, quotes, images, pictures, artwork or other decorative elements or media that may be minted on the metal piece, on-demand. A user may either select from a list of predetermined decorative elements or specify, input or upload a custom decorative element, such as text or images. It should be noted that the user may access or select the various data via a client or user computer, which may include a desktop computer, laptop computer, tablet computer, cellular telephone, game console, music player, media device, downloadable application, web-based application, website, etc. The user of certain embodiments, as provided herein, may include an end-user, consumer, or purchaser of the minted metal piece or assembly; however, it should be noted that the user may also or instead be defined as a publisher, manufacturer, distributor, retailer, reseller, or other entity involved in the creation, production and sale of the minted metal piece or assembly. Accordingly, the user, regardless of his/her role, may access certain selectable data of the present invention to manage or customize the on-demand production of one or more minted metal pieces or assemblies.
Once the user has selected certain data or media and thereby placed an order for a minted metal piece or assembly, the on-demand management system will communicate instructions to an output or production system. The output or production system includes a plurality of stock metal bases and one or more minting machines, cutters, lasers, etc. The output or production system will thereby mint the metal piece, on-demand, or otherwise as ordered, according to the user-selected specifications and instructions provided by the on-demand management system.
Certain embodiments further include the on-demand production of a customized housing or packaging. In such a case, the user may also select or specify certain housing data, which may include the type of housing, material to be used, size, shape, etc. The user may also select or specify certain text or decorative elements to be printed on the housing, the location of the minted piece within the housing, etc. The housing data or media will then be communicated from the on-demand management system to the output or production system, which in such an embodiment, further includes a printer or other machinery to create or print the specified housing. The housing and the minted metal piece are then combined to form the minted metal assembly, on-demand.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent when the drawings as well as the detailed description are taken into consideration.
THE BENEFITS OF GOLD, SILVER,
&
OTHER PRECIOUS METALS
Diversification
Free of Counterparty Risk
Hedge Against Inflation
Hedge Against The Dollar
Historical Value
Intrinsic Value
Liquidity
Privacy
Scarcity
Space Efficient
Tangible
Technology-FreE
OUR U.S. PATENT FOR:
“A System and Method for Customized, On-Demand
Production of Minted Metal & Minted Metal Assemblies”
Is a rare business investment opportunity that offers many intrinsic values.
The owners of the PATENT will enjoy an exclusive business positioning advantage—even over established mints.
Consider that there is a significant opportunity for licensing established mints.
Once the patent is sold, this distinctive window of opportunity is gone forever.
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