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Intellicheck secures patent for fingerprint authentication process

June 14, 2016

Intellicheck Mobilisa Inc, a provider of authentication, verification and validation technology solutions, has been awarded a U.S. patent governing a two-factor fingerprint biometric identity process. According to a press release, the process authenticates an ID card by comparing embedded fingerprint biometric information on the card with live biometric information of the person presenting the card.

"This patent allows us to make important strides in the fast growing $25 billion fingerprint biometric marketplace," Intellicheck CEO Dr. William Roof said in a press release. "Growth of fingerprint biometrics is being fueled by government and commercial market security needs as well as being driven by the ever-increasing dynamics of domestic and international threats. ... The ability of this technology to identify people successfully in an infinite, repeatable, precise manner helps solve critical identification challenges across these markets."

The patent covers the process at the heart of the leading biometric fingerprint technology that assures compliance with Federal Information Processing Standard 201.

Compliance with this standard requires the ability to verify that the person presenting the identity card is the card's owner. Fingerprint biometrics accomplishes this by matching the rightful card owner's fingerprints — encrypted and stored on the card's smart chip — with the actual fingerprints of the person presenting the card.

Real-time comparison and authentication of the live and embedded fingerprint enhances means that fakes and forgeries can't elude the matching process, the release said.