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Credit card with digitized finger print and reading apparatus

Patent 5473144 Issued on December 5, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 27, 2014. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor: Hiramatsu

Inventor

Application

No. 249335 filed on 05/27/1994

US Classes:

235/380, Credit or identification card systems235/382Permitting access

Examiners

Primary: Shepperd, John W.
Assistant: Frech, Karl D.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G06K 005/00

Abstract

A credit card having thereon an actual enhanced authorized card holders finger print and corresponding digitized representation of the actual finger print, an apparatus to read the digitized finger print optically and magnetically and a method of reading the finger print optically and magnetically.

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