who invented cac card technology
Milestones in the development of smart card technology: 1970 - Dr. Kunitaka Arimura of Japan filed the first and only patent on the smart card concept. 1974 - Roland Moreno of France filed the original patent for the IC card, later dubbed the smart card. 1977 - Three commercial manufacturers, Bull CP8, SGS Thomson, and Schlumberger began developing the IC card. 1979 - Motorola developed the first secure single chip microcontroller for use in French banking. 1982 - Field testing of serial memory phone cards took place in France-the world's first major IC card test.