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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2007
Michael Stephen Fiske, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Stephen Fiske, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fiske Software, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, biometric authentication, using fingerprints, handprints, retinal scans and voice recognition, may be used as a means of granting access to an individual, for example, to use a device or gain entry to a building, car, computer, airport, website, a bank account, execute a financial transaction, access a military installation, read or obtain confidential information, execute a legal agreement, authenticate a decision, or another entity. In another embodiment, biometric authentication can be used as an alternative to the use of a key or combination or as an additional form of authentication. Access may be in any of a number of forms. In one embodiment a collection of pairs of features from one biometric print is compared to another collection of pairs from another biometric print to determine whether biometric authentication is successful.