Fingerprint Cards AB (publ) has opened its first sales & support office in Tokyo. The main task for the Japan office is to support and enable its customer's that has decided to implement FPC's world capacitive fingerprint authentication technology in their mobiles and tablets. The Tokyo office will primarily provide technical support for several mobile phone manufacturers in Japan that has chosen to integrate fingerprint technology in some of their phone models.

The company hired Tan Yuedong as senior technical manager. Tan Yuedong, who will lead the technical support from the Tokyo office, has a solid background in telecommunications and IT, and joins FPC from ST-Ericsson in Japan, where has worked as senior application engineer with system integration on several different mobile phone platforms. In addition, Tan has previously been employed both by Samsung and Huawei.