STRATEGIC PARTNERS
February 21, 2002
Impro Technologies received a patent for a remote control banking system comprising an ATM and a remote control operating device.
The device, a portable, hand-held unit, includes a keypad for entering an ATM user's confidential code. The device includes a microprocessor incorporating a data base for storing a preset code containing predetermined information on the user's bank account. It also includes a signal generator for generating radio frequency signals from the confidential and preset codes, and transmitters for transmitting the signals to the signal receiver. The device includes an electro-magnetic coil which is energized to provide power for the device when in proximity with the electro-magnetic coil of the ATM.
Inventors of the device are Errol Peter East and Frank Brooks.
