Bio-Key receives European, South African patents
Patent for Vector Sector Technology covers similar claims as American patent awarded last year
We have been giving Wall, New Jersey-based Bio-Key a lot of attention recently, mainly due to the company’s innovative uses of biometric technologies. In the past few months it has announced a new product to help parents track missing children and was mentioned in press reports for having used fingerprint biometrics to help South Africa register 100,000 refugees. Now we hear that the company has received a European patent for its identification indexing technology, a key element of its Vector Segment Technology (VST) software, and a South African patent for its Web-Key Secure Biometric Authentication system. The European patent covers similar claims made in an American patent awarded last year.
Bio-Key’s VST software goes beyond traditional fingerprint biometrics by analyzing thousands of vector points wthin each fingerprint image, allowing for higher levels of accuracy and speed than can typically be achieved. Although many see fingerprint biometrics as a verification tool, the company believes the technology is strong enough to allow single-factor identification.
-read more in this company press release
