SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PERSONAL DATA VIA A MICRO-CHIP
When emergency action has to be taken for civil, social and health reasons, persons bringing aid to someone unable to talk, especially someone without relatives or friends, often face difficulties due to lack of information about what may be useful of harmful for the person concerned.
Today it is easier to recognise a bag despatched by air, discover its destination and owner and check all its movements by computer, than it is to idenntify, for example, an elderly person who may have temporarily lost his memory and carries no identify documents.
Purpose of this present invention is to improve the efficiency of such emergency action by providing all the information needed so that quick and effective aid may be given.
This information can be provided by an easily applied and inexpensive means as will now be explained.
Subject of the invention is a means for finding out the essential information about a person who is without friends or relations and is not in a position to provide such information unaided.
The means here described can store data in a micro-chip associated to the person, which data can be immediately read by the health structures that operate in cases of emergency.
Recording data for storage in a micro-chip and reading said data is done by a special recorder-reader connected by wiring to a computer containing a program for this precise purpose.
In one type, connection between micro-chip and recorder-reader is made through a window in this latter, in which the micro-chip is inserted, said window comprising means for electrical connection to the micro-chip.
Means for electrical connection can consist of lamine on the micro-chip and fixed contacts in the recorder-reader, or else of fixed contacts in the micro-chip and lamine for contact on the recorder-reader. In one type the contact between the micro-chip and the recorder-reader opposite to the former, is made by electromagnetic waves.
In one type the micro-chip is associated to the person by insertion under the skin inside a form of container compatible with the human body.
On the surface of the skin, over the micro-chip underneath, is a small tattoo, or its equivalent, so that the micro-chip can be found immediately.
In one type the micro-chip is associated to objects that the person normally carries.
The micro-chip can be movably inserted in a chamber inside the objects.
The chamber containing the micro chip is watertight, even at great depth, and is resistant to magnetic fields and to heat and cold.
The chamber may advantageously be closed by elastic means that enable it to be snapped open, or by screwing means.
In one type the micro-chip is fixed permanently inside the objects.
In one type the micro-chip is integrated with the objects. The objects, which may be of precious metal, are for example a pendant, a ring, a watch, an earring, a bracelet, a broach, a badge, a key-holder, a necklace or some other.
The object may be of an original shape to make it easily recognisable as a micro-chip holder. It is useful to mark the outside of the object with a specific symbol to indicate the presence of a micro-chip.
Data is recorded and, if necessary, altered by means of secret codes so that reading can only be done by organizations authorized to guarantee authenticity of the stored data.
By means of the computer program the data can be read in the desired language to make them utilizable anywhere in the world. Data that may usefully be stored, for example, are:
- those for identification of the person
- those concerning any kind of insurance
- those concerning public health services - numbers of bank accounts and credit cards
- all kinds of health information such as a case sheet, RH blood group, allergies, any disease carried, presence of a pace-maker, of diabetes, epilepsy, surgical operations undergone, medicines needed for survival or taken habitually - decisions for donation of organs
- information about a personal Will
- personal messages
- addresses and phone numbers of relations and friends
- authorization for use of recorded data to those providing aid - electronic signatures
The memory in the micro-chip is obtainable by electric circuits or by a magnetic strip.
Micro-chip dimensions may be substantially mm 10x7x4.5 or mm 3x2, or others. The invention offers evident advantages.
The micro-chip can store within its minute bulk the same information as that obtainable from the great quantity of paper documents that everyone should carry around for equivalent purposes.
The health structures, normally called upon to deal with emergencies of various kinds, such as civil protection organizations, police, Red Cross ambulance service, helicopter service, first aid departments in hospitals, and the like, can quickly identify persons carrying the micro-chip, obtain names of relatives or friends to contact, gain health information about the
person and therefore arrange the necessary action which might be useless if delayed even for a very short time.
Administration of certain medicines, which could be harmful or even cause the death of the person, can be avoided. On the other hand, knowledge can be gained of specific medicines needed for the person's survival.
Use of the device makes it possible to recognise anyone suffering from partial or total loss of memory, to find lost children, people carrying pace makers, people who have been killed by natural disasters, in air crashes, accidents on the roads or elsewhere.
The micro-chip can also store personal messages of a confidential nature, such as decisions about donation of body organs, about blood transfusions if forbidden by some religions, information about a persons last will and testament. Further information of importance, such as a person's DNA, can also be stored.
The micro-chip would naturally be of the greatest use in high-risk professions as well as in certain forms of sport involving extreme danger.
Almost anyone could be interested in always carrying around a means of communication to ensure that others can become aware of situations in which the person concerned cannot communicate directly.
While the micro-chip memory is being read, its contents can immediately be translated into the most widely known languages so that assistance can be given anywhere in the world. Information can remain completely confidential by recording data on health in code form as only those structures that receive the program and recorder-reader will be able to know what is stored in the micro-chip.
Each time data changes the person can record the new data using a personal secret code. Personal and secret knowledge of the code giving access to data contained in the micro-chip mounted in the objects referred to, obviously provides proof of ownership of said objects in addition to the electronic signature on the stored documents.
Characteristics and purposes of the invention will be made still clearer by the following examples of its execution illustrated by diagrammatically drawn figures.
Fig. 1 Bracelet with micro-chip placed inside a specially made chamber, view in perspective.
Fig. 2 As above, with the chamber open, perspective.
Fig. 3 Detail of a micro-chip, perspective.
Fig. 4 Micro-chip fitted inside a ring, perspective.
Fig. 5 As above, with the ring open, perspective. Fig. 6 Wrist-watch with a micro-chip inside a chamber, perspective.
Fig. 7 Detail showing the watch open at the back, perspective.
Fig. 8 The apparatus needed for recording and reading the micro-chip.
Fig. 9 Example of recorded data.
Fig.10 The micro-chip inserted under the skin of a person's arm, perspec- tive from above.
Fig.1 1 The apparatus needed for recording and reading the micro-chip under the skin, shown during reading, perspective.
The bracelet 10 is formed of a chain 1 1 that carries the flat oblong box
12 with a chamber 17 and lid 14 joined, by means of an elastic connec- tion on the sides, by the tongue-shaped parts 15 that catch onto the internally projecting edges 13 of the chamber.
A symbol 16 is marked on the lid 14 to show the presence of the microchip inside.
Figure 2 shows the box open and the micro-chip 20 extracted. In Figure 3 there is an enlarged view of the micro-chip showing the lateral lamine 21 for electric contact.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a ring 30 in which is a chamber 31 for the microchip 20, closed by a cap 33 with threading 32.
The symbol 16 is marked on the ring to indicate the presence of the micro-chip inside.
In Figure 5 the cap has been taken off to show the micro-chip 20 .
Figures 6 and 7 illustrate a wrist-watch at the back of which is a box 41 with a lid 42 fixed on by screws 43.
The micro-chip 20 is placed inside the box.
The symbol 16 is marked on the back surface to show the presence of the micro-chip inside.
Figure 8 shows an apparatus comprising a computer 50, containing a special program, connected by the wire 51 to a recorder-reader 52.
In the recorder-reader there is a window 55 in which to place the microchip taken from the objects in Figures 1 to 7.
Figure 9 gives examples of data put into the micro-chip 20 by the above apparatus. Figure 10 illustrates the back of a person's arm 60 under the skin of which the micro-chip 22 has been inserted, its position being marked by a tattoo 63.
The same arm 60 is seen again in Figure 1 1 with the micro-chip 22 connected by electromagnetic waves to the recorder-reader 65 in turn connected by a wire 62 to the computer 61.
This figure can of course illustrate recording of data where updating is needed, or reading of data if the person has met with an accident.
The data can be recorded by structures covered by an agreement with the producer of the system, such as jewellers selling real or false jewels, health centre test departments, doctors, pharmacies, specialized shops.
The producer of the system can provide the program and equipment by sale, hire or by some other arrangement.
If necessary, for reasons of security the wearer can personally insert the data in the micro-chip or appoint someone else to do it. The recorder-reader and the hardware and software components for working the program can be consigned to all those social and health structures that normally act in cases of emergency such as hospitals, firemen, police and similar organizations.