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

Probaris wins Patent Office PIV contract

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Probaris was awarded a contract to assist the United States Patent and Trademark Office comply with HSPD-12. The Patent and Trademark Office is a federal agency under the Department of Commerce. Probaris will install its Probaris ID, an end-to-end secure identity solution, to produce smart identity credentials for the office’s personnel. The Patent and Trademark Office will use the credentials for physical and logical access control within their enterprise architecture.

Under the terms of the contract, Probaris will deliver:

• Identity proofing and vetting, and document authentication;


  • Secure workflow software;
  • Software to provide multi-biometric identification enrollment and management of facial images, live scan fingerprints, and fingerprint minutia;
  • Card management system software and integration components for interfaces to public key infrastructure to manage the credentials; and,
  • Professional services to analyze business rules and integration of logical and physical security system components.

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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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Philadelphia-based identity software company Probaris has released an upgrade to its identity registration authority software. Called ID 4.0, it now supports multiple credential, token and device types, enabling configurable workflows for varying credential form factors.

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The U.S. Government Printing Office designed and printed an FBI special events credential that was used at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis by public safety personnel.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to add biometric modalities and other enhancements to the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT uses digital fingerprints and photographs. A pilot program included in the contract will test facial and iris voluntary identification enrollment and matching.

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Philadelphia-based identity software and services provider Probaris has gotten into the Identity as a Service (IDaaS) field with an offering that enables commercial enterprises, government agencies and government affiliated parties to issue PIV Interoperable (PIV-I) credentials.

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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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