CANDIA, N.H., July 15, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Liska Biometry, Inc. (OTCBB:LSKA), a biometrics solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent Office has granted the Company a patent on its unique biometric fingerprint technology. This patent was fast-tracked by the U.S. Patent Office under its special anti-terrorism provision, due to the significance of the Liska approach.
The Company develops innovative biometric technology that extracts a unique short code template, based on one's fingerprint pattern. This short number is based on Liska's advanced and non-traditional approach to the analysis and encoding of fingerprints, including methods of identifying and selecting key components from the plurality of fingerprint features and quantifying the results in a manner that generates highly unique and very consistent fingerprint templates. This approach and the consistency of the coded results promise to provide highly accurate fingerprint verification, i.e. very low False Accept Rates and False Rejection Rates, for use in the most sensitive security applications. Additionally, Liska's short code templates can be very effective for rapid identification searches against immigration databases and terrorist/law enforcement watch lists, potentially requiring only a fraction of the processing speed currently needed by more conventional fingerprint identification methods.
Liska's template results can also be used to generate a short universal biometric identifier number (BIN) capable of being embedded in personal credentials such as travel visas and passports. This BIN, derived from the Liska fingerprint analysis and coding methodology, is itself very unique and very short, and can be very effective in visual inspections and other special applications in conjunction with the other Liska short-code templates. The BIN can also be very useful in situations where the fingerprint and fingerprint template must be encrypted for privacy protection.
Liska intends to make its unique algorithms available for wide application usage in the near future.
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