US Patent Issued to PROTEC SECURE CARD, TOPPAN HOGIER S.A.S on Sept. 16 for "Dual interface smart card" (Colombian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,368, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PROTEC SECURE CARD and TOPPAN HOGIER S.A.S (Bogota DC, Colombia).

"Dual interface smart card" was invented by Juan Mejia (Rumson, N.J.) and Carlos Eduardo Gartner Valencia (Bogota DC, Colombia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a smart card and/or a payment card that has a dual interface, which optionally comprises one or more of a first antenna, a second antenna, a wire loop, various inlays, one or more metal layers, one or more printed PVC layers, and one or more contact, contactless, and/or integrated circuit chips. The first antenna and second antenna are part...