Patent ID: 7693313

Claim:
An identification card comprising: (a) indicia printed on a surface of the identification card to identify a particular identification card; (b) digital circuitry having memory to store a digital word indicative of the external indicia to identify the particular identification card; (c) a fingerprint sensor; (d) digital circuitry, coupled to the fingerprint sensor, the digital circuitry comprising: (i) memory to store a digital word, the digital word indicative of a fingerprint initially scanned by the fingerprint sensor to identify an individual associated with the particular identification card, and (ii) a fingerprint validation algorithm that verifies a newly scanned fingerprint matches the initially scanned fingerprint to verify the individual providing the newly scanned fingerprint is the individual associated with the particular identification card; (e) digital circuitry to disable the fingerprint sensor when the newly scanned fingerprint does not match the initially scanned fingerprint after a predetermined number of attempts; (f) an antenna; (g) a dual-mode radio frequency modulator coupled to the antenna and coupled to the digital circuitry; and (h) a control processor connected to the digital circuitry and the radio frequency modulator to communicate a signal to the radio frequency modulator indicative of a successful match between the fingerprint initially scanned by the fingerprint sensor and the newly scanned fingerprint to identify the individual associated with the particular identification card, wherein the identification card further comprises digital circuitry to replace the digital word indicative of the initially scanned fingerprint with a second digital word indicative of the newly scanned fingerprint when the fingerprint validation algorithm verifies that the newly scanned fingerprint matches the initially scanned fingerprint.