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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2007
Applicants:

Michael Boshra, Indialantic, FL (US);

Robert Scott Brandt, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Jeffrey C. Lee, Melbourne, FL (US);

Gregory Thomas Minteer, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US);

Gary S. Porter, Malabar, FL (US);

Andrew J. Vandamia, Rockledge, FL (US);

James R. Waldron, Oviedo, FL (US);

Inventors:

Michael Boshra, Indialantic, FL (US);

Robert Scott Brandt, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Jeffrey C. Lee, Melbourne, FL (US);

Gregory Thomas Minteer, Indian Harbour Beach, FL (US);

Gary S. Porter, Malabar, FL (US);

Andrew J. Vandamia, Rockledge, FL (US);

James R. Waldron, Oviedo, FL (US);

Assignee:

Authentec, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G05B 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A finger sensing apparatus may include an integrated circuit (IC) substrate, an array of finger sensing elements on the IC substrate, and encryption circuitry on the IC substrate cooperating with the array of finger sensing elements for encrypting a user template comprising finger template data and at least one user credential. The at least one user credential may enable another device, such as a host platform, to perform at least one protected operation.


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