ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,112, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TOPPAN INC. (Tokyo).
"IC card and method for manufacturing IC card" was invented by Yukiko Katano (Tokyo), Tetsuya Tsukada (Tokyo) and Shin Kataoka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC card provided with an IC chip, and configured to enable at least one of contact communication and contactless communication, the IC card including an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor connected to the IC chip and a storage unit in which fingerprint data for matching is stored. An outer surface of the IC card is formed of synthetic resin, and the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is covered with the synthetic resin."...