Patent ID: 8196817

Claim:
A financial transaction card associated with an account of a cardholder, said financial transaction card comprising: a front side; a back side; a signature block comprising a substrate having a bottom face and a top face, the bottom face coupled to at least one of said sides of said card, the top face being substantially planar and including a first data field and a second data field, the first data field and the second data field being non-overlapping and visually distinct from one another independent of account data present in each data field, the top face of the first data field having a first visual appearance independent of account data present in the first data field, the top face of the second data field having a second visual appearance independent of account data present in the second data field, the first visual appearance being different than the second visual appearance, the first visual appearance and the second visual appearance defining a line visually separating the first data field from the second data field; an account identifier displayed within the first data field, the account identifier comprising a set of characters for at least partially identifying the cardholder account; and a validation code associated with the account displayed within the second data field, wherein the account data comprises at least one of the account identifier and the validation code.