Patent ID: 8544733

Claim:
A method for parallel personalization of a plurality of portable data carriers, each having an integrated circuit for at least one of storing or processing information and a nonvolatile memory, comprising the steps: transmitting a personalization signal with personalization data to each of the plurality of portable data carriers from a reading device, and storing the transmitted personalization data in the nonvolatile memory of the integrated circuit of each of the portable data carriers, wherein the same personalization signal is transmitted simultaneously or at least in temporally overlapping fashion by an antenna device of the reading device in a contactless fashion to the portable data carriers, wherein the personalization signal is received in a contactless fashion by at least one adapter element, the at least one adapter element accommodates one of the portable data carriers, and the personalization signal is transmitted to the accommodated portable data carrier by the at least one adapter element via contacts on the portable data carrier provided for connecting a contactless interface, wherein the plurality of the data carriers is guided through a coil tunnel of the reading device where the personalization data from the reading device is transmitted to the portable data carriers.