SmartMetric USPTO Issued Design Patents to Block Any Other Biometric Fingerprint Activated Cards in the United States

SmartMetric, Inc. (OTC: SMME) having spent over a decade on research and development in creating a credit card with an inbuilt fingerprint scanner for the ultimate in credit card security. SmartMetric has protected its invention of a biometric fingerprint activated credit card with patents.

As the company moves ever closer to releasing its biometric credit card in association with credit card issuing banks a few copy cat companies have emerged to attempt to compete in the over 11 billion unit issued global card market.

Over the past couple of years a few companies have attempted to copy SmartMetric’s fingerprint activated biometric credit card. One of these copycat companies is the largest credit card manufacturer in the world based in Europe. In an attempt to catch up with SmartMetric in bringing to market a biometric credit card, this company rushed to bring to market a card that in many ways is inferior to the SmartMetric biometric card solution.

First these copycat card manufacturers cards do not have inbuilt power making them unusable at most ATM’s. Because they haven’t spent the R&D resources to develop a card that has an internal self-powered system inside the card, these copycat cards use the power of the card reader to power the cards fingerprint reader. This means these cards need the card user to hold the card at the reader for the card to be able to perform a fingerprint scan. Making these cards unusable at restaurants where the card is taken from the table for processing or at 90% of ATM’s.

The SmartMetric biometric card has its own internal rechargeable power source making its card able to be used at all card readers including ATM’s and restaurants that take the card from the table for processing a restaurant charge.

Apart from the obvious superiority of the SmartMetric card, the founder and inventor of SmartMetric, Chaya Hendrick, has issued patents from the United States Patent Office that stop any copy-cat from selling even inferior biometric cards, in the United States.

Simply, SmartMetric is able to protect its position as the only biometric card developer that can sell any type of card with a smart card chip and a fingerprint sensor on it in the USA. Patent protection has also been filed as well in other parts of the world. This protection against others from issuing or selling biometric cards includes any smart card with a chip and fingerprint sensor on it from credit cards to biometric ID and access control cards.