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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
May. 01, 2002
William E. Freeman, Arbutus, MD (US);
Mark A. Bellmore, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Kenneth W. Aull, Fair Fax, VA (US);
William E. Freeman, Arbutus, MD (US);
Mark A. Bellmore, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Kenneth W. Aull, Fair Fax, VA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A process for generating a unique, secure and printable identity document, for authenticating the use of the document, and for granting privileges based on the document, includes generating an identity certificate for an individual. This certificate incorporates a pointer to biometric and other identifying data for the individual which are stored in a reference database. The identity certificate is encoded to produce, for example, a machine-readable printable 2-dimensional barcode as an identity document. The identity document may then be used by the document holder for generation of an encoded privilege document and this, in turn, is compared with the stored reference data, including the stored biometric when the privilege is to be exercised.