US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Sept. 1 for "Smart card with hard-wired tamper detection system" (North Carolina, Arizona, South Carolina, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,155, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Smart card with hard-wired tamper detection system" was invented by Sanjay Lohar (Charlotte, N.C.), Jesus Alvarez Solis (Buckeye, Ariz.), Karen McFeeters (York, S.C.), Madeline Fest (Charlotte, N.C.), Kyle Mayers (Charlotte, N.C.), Naomi Verma (Washington) and Adam Kristian King (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart card with a hard-wired tamper detection system and near-field communication is provided. The smart card may include a tamper detection unit ("TDU") that may include a smart chip embedded in the smart card. The smart chip ma...