Patents

BIO-key is a pioneer and innovator who continues to be recognized as a leading developer of access management and biometric identity solutions. Below is a summary of the patents granted to BIO-key International.

Patents

PATENT 10,984,085 BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION FOR UNCONTROLLED ACQUISITION ENVIRONMENTS
A method of image acquisition across variable sensors for scaling, orientation, and position. Use of dynamic algorithms for proper analysis to align to enrolled samples.
Filed August 3, 2018; granted April 20, 2021
Inventor: Renat Zhdanov. Granted in the US.
PATENT 10,410,040 FINGERPRINT LOCK CONTROL METHOD AND FINGERPRINT LOCK SYSTEM
A lock design of the control process of scanning, and server communications for user profile management.
Filed June 26, 2017; granted September 10, 2019
Inventor: Kwok Fong (Kelvin) Wong. Granted in the US and China.
PATENT 10,400,481 FINGERPRINT LOCK
A lock design of the shackle and spring integration to electronics.
Filed June 27, 2017; granted September 3, 2019
Inventor: Kwok Fong (Kelvin) Wong. Granted in the US and China.
PATENT 10,025,831 ADAPTIVE SHORT LISTS AND ACCELERATION OF BIOMETRIC DATABASE SEARCH
A system for creating an adaptive set of filters, resulting in short lists to reduce the biometric database size.
Biometric identification by quickly removing large sections of the database as not valid for a match to the candidate sample.
Filed April 2, 2015; granted July 17, 2018
Inventor: Renat Zhdanov, Alexander Ouchveridze. Granted in the US.
PATENT 10,002,244 UTILIZATION OF BIOMETRIC DATA
A method to precapture and utilize biometric data for authentication without the need for a formal user interaction.
Filed March 30, 2017; granted June 19, 2018
Inventor: Mira LaCous, Gary Zarn. Granted in the US.
PATENT 9,646,146 UTILIZATION OF BIOMETRIC DATA
A method to precapture and utilize biometric data for authentication without the need for a formal user interaction.
Ability to use a sensor as a small area touch sensor, or as a swipe sensor to attain larger, more accurate images.
Filed March 6, 2015; granted May 9, 2017
Inventor: Mira LaCous, Gary Zarn. Granted in the US.
PATENT 8,397,077 CLIENT SIDE AUTHENTICATION REDIRECTION
A method of generating a password for a given user and a given authentication.
Filed April 24, 2008; granted March 12, 2013
Inventor: Thomas Hoey, Gregg Browinski. Granted in the US.
PATENT 8,214,652 BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION NETWORK SECURITY
System for regulating user access to systems using biometric security and the Trusted Computing Platform specification.
Advancement of the Systems and Methods Patent to include the standard Trusted Device Platform for protection of the encryption.
Filed June 3, 2008; granted July 3, 2012
Inventor: Mira LaCous. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.
PATENT 8,196,193 METHOD FOR RETROFITTING PASSWORD ENABLED COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH A REDIRECTION USER AUTHENTICATION METHOD
Service ticket obtained from a server to manage user status for applications in exchange for passwords.
Filed July 18, 2008; granted June 5, 2012
Inventor: Thomas Hoey, Gregg Browinski. Granted in the US
PATENT 8,055,027 GENERATION OF DIRECTIONAL FIELD INFO IN THE CONTEXT OF IMAGE PROCESSING
Methods of generating a directional field.
Utilization of the directional field in image processing and image enhancement steps to improve accuracy.
Filed June 30, 2004; granted November 8, 2011
Inventor: Andrey Nikiforov. Granted in the US and several foreign countries.
PATENT 7,539,331 IMAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Methods of improving performance and reliability of image processing.
Filed May 3, 2005; granted May 26, 2009
Inventor: Barry Wendt, Ben Wittig. Granted in the US and several foreign countries.
PATENT 7,502,938 TRUSTED BIOMETRIC DEVICE
A method of protecting data from the capture point to usage point that enhances the security and usefulness of the remote capture devices.
Prevents digital attack of the biometric reader device.
Filed July 24, 2003; granted March 10, 2009
Inventor: Mira LaCous. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.
PATENT 7,454,624 MATCH TEMPLATE PROTECTION WITHIN BIOMETRIC SECURITY
A differentiation of enrollment templates to authentication models for enhanced security.
If an Enrollment template cannot be used for authentication, then an enrollment database loss has less impact to any operational system.
Filed May 14, 2003; granted November 18, 2008
Inventor: Mira LaCous. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.
PATENT 7,415,605 BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION NETWORK SECURITY
System for regulating user access to systems using biometric security and the Trusted Computing Platform specification.
Advancement of the Systems and Methods Patent to include the standard Trusted Device Platform for protection of the encryption.
Filed September 29, 2006; granted August 19, 2008
Inventor: Mira LaCous. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.
PATENT 7,359,553 IMAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Core image Processing and Data Indexing solution, core unique elements of BIO-key’s algorithm, and solution offering.
Covers image enhancement, quality fields, and indexing for 1:N technology.
Filed February 16, 2001; granted April 15, 2008
Inventor: Barry Wendt, Ben Wittig. Granted in the US and several foreign countries.
PATENT 7,155,040 GENERATION OF QUALITY FIELD INFORMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF IMAGE PROCESSING
Generation of image quality values
Use of the image quality in further image processing and data extraction.
Filed June 29, 2004; granted December 26, 2006
Inventor: Andrey Nikiforov. Granted in the US and several foreign countries.
PATENT 7,117,356 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION
Client authentication to a server in a secure session for Enterprise solutions, which is embodied in BIO-key’s WEB-key solution.
Security for session management, confirmation of authentication data, and single transaction processing.
Filed May 20, 2003; granted October 3, 2006
Inventor: Mira LaCous. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.
PATENT 6,895,104 IMAGE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM
Core image processing and data indexing solution, core unique elements of BIO-key’s algorithm, and solution offering.
Covers image enhancement, quality fields, and indexing for 1:N technology.
Filed November 16, 2001; granted May 17, 2005
Inventor: Barry Wendt, Mira LaCous, et al. Granted in the US and many foreign countries.

Applications

APPLICATION 20150101065 USER CONTROLLED DATA SHARING PLATFORM
A method of allowing user control over biometric data storage and sharing locations.
Filed October 3, 2014; Presently stalled with prior art conflicts
Inventor: James Sullivan

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