BEFS Assigned Patent
Portable storage device using fingerprint recognition
By Francis Pelletier | October 6, 2016 at 2:52 pmBEFS Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,449,162) developed by Lee, Seung Jin, Yongin-si, Korea, and Bang, Chang Hyeok, Seoul, Korea, for a “portable storage device using fingerprint recognition, and control method thereof.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Disclosed is a portable storage device including a fingerprint sensor, a fingerprint data processing unit, a data repository, a data processing unit and the like. The fingerprint data processing unit outputs a fingerprint matching signal when fingerprint information received from the fingerprint sensor matches authentication fingerprint information of the fingerprint data repository. If the fingerprint matching signal is received from the fingerprint data processing unit, the data processing unit retrieves a data requested by the user terminal from the data repository, converts the retrieved data into a read-only data and transmits the read-only data to the user terminal.“
The patent application was filed on July 10, 2013 (14/356,108).
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