November 15 - Bank of America looks to biometric ATMs in new patent application
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Technology For A Global Monetary System
The Bank of America has pushed through a patent application, which describes a biometric ATM system. Reported in ATM Marketplace, the patent was submitted to the USPTO in 2012, and published recently in 2013.
Specifically, this patent application outlines a system for authenticating users with a combination of a pin-code and fingerprint biometrics.
[A] fingerprint scanner for use in the systems and methods of the invention may use optical fingerprint imaging, ultrasonic sensors, capacitance sensors (passive or active) and/or any other suitable method to capture the digital image of a fingerprint, is just an example of some of the unspecific language contained in this application. Any suitable method for PIN validation and fingerprint validation may be used to validate the input PIN and fingerprints.
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