The holder of a patent that covers the transfer of funds between networks via the Internet—technology commonly used to move money from bank accounts to campus identification cards—said today that it would donate the licensing fees it receives from colleges to a scholarship fund.

“We just felt it was the appropriate thing to do,” said Jon Gear, vice president of JSA Technologies, the patent holder. The scholarship fund’s focus will be preventive health.

JSA Technologies, which received the patent in October 2005, began notifying colleges this year that their campus identification cards may use technology that infringes on the company’s rights (The Chronicle, April 7). The company contacted institutions that developed “Web revalue” systems on their own after JSA filed for its patent, in 1999. Mr. Gear said the company had “gotten some responses” from colleges and was negotiating with several of them.