Below is a summary of the patents granted to BIO-key International as of 2019.
| Patent 6,895,104 Image Identification System |
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| 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 16th, 2001; granted May 17th, 2005 |
| Inventor: Barry Wendt, Mira LaCous, et al. Granted in the U.S. and many 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 20th, 2003; granted October 3rd, 2006 |
| Inventor: Mira LaCous Granted in the U.S. and many 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 29th, 2004; granted December 26th, 2006 |
| Inventor: Andrey Nikiforov – granted in the U.S. and several 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 16th, 2001; granted April 15th, 2008 |
| 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 29th, 2006; granted August 19th, 2008 |
| Inventor: Mira LaCous Granted in the U.S. and many foreign countries |
| Patent 7,454,624 Match Template Protection within Biometric Security |
| A differentiation of enrollment templates to authentications 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 14th, 2003; granted November 18th, 2008 |
| Inventor: Mira LaCous Granted in the U.S. and many foreign countries |
| Patent 7,502,938 Trusted Biometric Device |
| A method of protecting data from the capture point to usage point that enhances security and usefulness of the remote capture devices. |
| Prevents digital attack of the biometric reader device. |
| Filed July 24th, 2003; granted March 10, 2009 |
| Inventor: Mira LaCous Granted in the U.S. and many foreign countries |
| Patent 7,539,331 Image Identification System |
| Methods of improving performance and reliability of image processing. |
| Filed May 3rd, 2005; granted May 26, 2009 |
| Inventor: Barry Wendt, Ben Wittig Granted in the U.S. and several foreign countries |
| Patent 8,055,027 Generation of Directional Field Info in the Context of Image Processing |
| Methods of generation of 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 U.S. and several foreign countries |
| 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 U.S. and many foreign countries |
| Patent 9,646,146 Utilization of Biometric Data |
| A method to precapture and utilize biometric data for authentications 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 U.S. |
| Patent 10,002,244 Utilization of Biometric Data |
| A method to precapture and utilize biometric data for authentications without the need for a formal user interaction. |
| Filed March 30, 2017; granted June 19, 2018 |
| Inventor: Mira LaCous, Gary Zarn – granted in the U.S. |
| 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 a 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 U.S. |
| 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 |
| Application 2016054476 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; in review |
| Inventor: Renat Zhdanov |