Jürgen Dethloff | |
Birth Date: | 12 May 1924 |
Birth Place: | Stettin, Weimar Republic |
Death Place: | Hamburg, Germany |
Nationality: | German |
Occupation: | Inventor, engineer |
Jürgen Dethloff (12 May 1924 in Stettin - 31 December 2002) was a German inventor and engineer.
Together with German inventor Helmut Gröttrup he invented the smart card (chip card). A successor of the original chip is now used in tens of millions of credit cards.
Dethloff and Gröttrup filed an application for a patent on 13 Sep 1969. However, the patent was only granted on 1 April 1982.[1]