Grady C Shumate, Sr

Title: Grady C. Shumate, Sr.: Identity Verification Through Fingerprint Matching

Introduction

Grady C. Shumate, Sr. is an inventor associated with Charlotte, North Carolina. His work includes an invention for confirming the identity of a person presenting an identification card.

Latest Patents

Shumate’s listed patent, “Method and Apparatus for Confirming the Identity of an Individual,” describes a system that compares a cardholder’s fingerprint with a unique code associated with the card owner and encoded on the card. The system uses a card reader, a central processing unit, a library of feature templates, a fingerprint scanner, memory, a communication interface, and a display to indicate whether the identity information correlates.

The invention is designed to verify that the person presenting the card is its rightful owner while requiring relatively little data. This approach can support lower-cost, lower-density encoding methods, including barcodes and magnetic strips. Shumate is credited with 1 patent.

Career Highlights

A key highlight of Shumate’s recorded inventive work is the integration of fingerprint scanning with identification-card data. The patent describes both the verification method and apparatus for carrying it out.

Collaborations

The provided information lists Nooral S. Abtahi and Waddie Heyward as Shumate’s coworkers. It does not specify their roles in the patent or describe particular collaborative projects.

Conclusion

Grady C. Shumate, Sr.’s documented invention combines fingerprint verification with information encoded on an identification card to provide a practical method for confirming an individual’s identity.