Credit card with digitized finger print and reading apparatus
CA 2239627 C · Owner: Mathurin, Trevor R. Jr. · Inventors: Mathurin, Trevor R. Jr.
Overview
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A credit card (12) having thereon an actual enhanced authorized card holders finger print (60) and corresponding digitized representation (88) of said actual finger print (60), an apparatus (10) to read said digitized finger print optically and magnetically and a method of reading said finger print optically and magnetically.
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- Filed December 4, 1995 and granted May 29, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 4, 2015.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 4, 2017.
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