Patents by Inventor Walter L. Stairhime, Jr.

Walter L. Stairhime, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Personal verification in a commercial transaction system
    Patent number: 6208264
    Abstract: A financial transaction customer carries a card key containing a unique, machine-readable code. The code is an encrypted data set representing the user's thumbprint. A scanning system senses the user's thumbprint on or adjacent the card key as he turns the card key in a keyhole. The code and thumbprint are read by laser and must match previously recorded data before an indication of satisfactory identification can be returned. The identification system further includes a centralized database containing data and processing software for recognizing the encoded card keys of the system, in addition to data and processing software for authenticating a user's thumbprint. A network links this centralized database to a number of remote terminals at sites where identification is required. Such a distributed network is common in today's identification systems involving more than one remote site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Automated Identification Service, Inc.
    Inventors: Monty T. Bradney, Walter L. Stairhime, Jr., Herbert Wayne Reid, George Warfel