Patent ID: 8797164

Claim:
A hard cover product having an outer liner, a pair of rigid cover boards, each having opposing planar surfaces, each of the pair of rigid cover boards attached on a respective one of the planar surfaces to a major surface of the outer liner and disposed in spaced-apart relation to define a spine for a hard cover product while defining front cover, back cover and spine therefor and overlying inner liners each inner liner attached to a respective one of cover boards in overlying relation to an opposing surface thereof, characterized by: the pair of rigid cover boards pre-cut to a selected size with a length and width exceeding a thickness; a laydown area defined selectively within the hard cover product between the outer liner and a respective one of the inner liners; a thin-film security device positioned on the laydown area, the security device having a thickness no greater than about a minority of the thickness of the one of the cover boards, the thin-film security device configured for responding to radio frequency signals; and an interior body cooperatively supported within the hard cover product, whereby with the laydown area within the hard cover product between the outer liner and a respective one of the inner liners, the outer liner, the security device, the one of the cover boards, and the said inner liner laminated together, concealingly disposing the security device therein, whereby the security device enclosed and laminated therein is concealed from casual indication of its presence and is held after lamination safely and securely therein during normal use thereof for hard cover product purposes and whereby the opposing rigid cover boards define the front cover and back cover that move together foldably along lines defined by opposing sides of the spine for the hard cover product.