Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

ImageWare Systems granted patent on multi-modal biometric technology

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

San Diego, Calif.–based ImageWare Systems has been awarded a patent for its multi-modal biometric fusion and analysis technology. This patent describes a multi-modal method, called biometric fusion, which combines biometric search results on multiple biometric identification markers to be brought together into a single result with a higher level of accuracy and reliability. The patent, titled “Multimodal Biometric Analysis,” is employed throughout ImageWare’s portfolio of biometric identity management solutions and marketed under the IWS Biometric Engine product suite.

This patent joins another recently received ImageWare patent for a multi-modal biometric identification and authentication system. This foundational patent describes a system or method for enrolling, searching, matching, and managing biometric modalities on a common platform, and is independent to the biometric types or the algorithms managed. [end] 

On Track Innovations has received a U.S. patent for adding contactless capability to existing mobile handsets through contactless SIM technology.

U.S. Patent No. 8,090,407, aka “Contactless Smart SIM,” covers the capabilities necessary to turn existing mobile handsets into NFC-enabled devices through the use of a SIM card and a specifically designed antenna, all while keeping the phone and operating system “fully agnostic,” says OTI.

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Technology company Sony has been awarded a patent for a game controller designed for use with their Playstation gaming systems that would be capable of measuring a player’s biometrics including heartbeat, perspiration and muscle movements, according to a Thinq article.

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HID Global announced that the company and its parent, ASSA ABLOY, have been notified by the United States Patent Office that their patent, US 2008/0163361, titled “Method and Apparatus for Making a Decision on a Card,” has been allowed and will issue shortly.

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Dolcera Corporation has released a patent repository for NFC technology.

According to Dolcera, the new report provides a layout of “essential patents” that enable the use of the NFC technology based on ISO/IEC 14443, ECMA-340 and ECMA-352 standards, as well as the patents that are used to deliver NFC-enabled applications to consumers.

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ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

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Biometric Signature ID (BSI), a developer of gesture-based biometric solutions, has announced it has been awarded a second patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on its multi-factor gesture biometric technology used for identification authentication.

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