Patents Assigned to Idex AS
  • Patent number: 10664669
    Abstract: A device for contactless communication with a terminal, the device comprising: an antenna for receiving a wireless signal emitted by the terminal; an embedded chip configured to generate data for communication to the terminal to perform a first function associated with the device; and a module separate from the chip configured to perform processes as part of a second function associated with the device, the module being connected to the antenna and comprising a power-harvesting unit configured to harvest power from the received wireless signal to power at least the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Biometrics ASA
    Inventors: Keith Ahluwalia, Peter Eckehard Kollig, Anthony Michael Eaton, Tuck Weng Poon, Fred G. Benkley, III
  • Patent number: 10655761
    Abstract: A tubing or fitting assembly has an inner tube layer, an outer tube layer, a sleeve, a tip portion, and can have a nut. Each of the nut, sleeve, inner and outer tubing layers, and tip portion have a passageway therethrough, with at least the passageways in the sleeve, tip portion, outer tube layer, and nut adapted to allow the inner tube layer to pass therethrough or extend over the inner layer. The tip portion can be molded over an end portion of the inner tube layer and also over a portion of the sleeve. The sleeve may include a retention feature in the form of a lip which extends into the tip portion, and also a narrower portion so that the tip portion and sleeve remain coupled together. The inner and outer tubing layers can also be retained by an interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Craig Graham, Eric Beemer, Scott Ellis, Troy Sanders, Nathaniel Nienhuis
  • Patent number: 10621765
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently reconstructing a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and reconstruct the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstruction image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventors: Roger A. Bauchspies, Sigmund Clausen, Arne Herman Falch
  • Patent number: 10612711
    Abstract: A fluid pulse dampener with automatic pressure-compensation is provided. A system of chambers and channels in the dampener creates an internal feedback mechanism that increases or decreases a compensating pressure on the membrane in response to increases or decreases in the pressure of a fluid moving past the other side of the membrane. Variations of the pulse dampener allow for the input and/or output of gas flow is be restricted or increased as may be desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M. Hartmann, Efthimios Tsirlis
  • Patent number: 10600219
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently mapping a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and map the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstructed image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 10592719
    Abstract: A novel sensor is provided having a plurality of substantially parallel drive lines configured to transmit a signal into a surface of a proximally located object and also a plurality of substantially parallel pickup lines oriented proximate the drive lines and electrically separated from the drive lines to form intrinsic electrode pairs that are impedance sensitive at each of the drive and pickup proximal locations. A switch is integrated with the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Biometrics ASA
    Inventor: Fred G. Benkley, III
  • Publication number: 20200065540
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a user's finger or other elements may be provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a memory, a sensor area, and a processor. The sensor area may include a set of receiving electrodes which may be partitioned among a plurality of electrode groups. The system may be configured to process signals received by the electrode groups by modulating the signals received from each electrode of the respective electrode group according to a modulation pattern, and demodulating the signals, or values derived therefrom, received from each electrode of the respective electrode group according to a demodulation pattern. The electrode groups may be at least partially interleaved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: IDEX ASA
    Inventors: Jeffrey A SMALL, David Joseph GEOFFROY, Alma DELIC-IBUKIC
  • Patent number: 10569224
    Abstract: A device which includes a pulse dampener and a degasser or de-bubbler. The device includes a fluid flow path and a fluid chamber located within the device. In addition, the device includes a pulse dampening membrane for dampening pulses in the fluid as it flows through the device. The device also includes a degassing membrane for degassing the fluid as it flows through the device, and/or a de-bubbling membrane for removing gas bubbles from the fluid as it flows through the device. The degassing or de-bubbling membrane can be separate and distinct from the dampening membrane. The de-bubbling membrane can be in addition to or in place of the degassing membrane in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M. Hartmann, Carl Sims, David Steckman, Leanne Elson
  • Patent number: 10551931
    Abstract: A portable electronic system that includes a biometric imaging device, such as for a fingerprint verification against a trusted pattern template. Security is a factor of a matching process and a quality of the trusted pattern template. By employing a set of user-predictably-influenceable sensor parameters in cooperation with the biometric sensor, it is possible to simply and efficiently enhance security as compared to use of the biometric sensor alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 10546223
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods facilitate enrollment of authenticating biometric data for authenticating an authorized user via a biometric sensor. Included devices transmit power to a sensor-enabled device that does not have an independent power source without transmitting data to or from the device. Data input devices coupled to the biometric sensor enable user input of non-biometric data, such as an activation code, via the biometric sensor. For biometric sensors comprising fingerprint sensors, finger guides position a finger to contact the sensor at a desired orientation. Systems and methods allow for enrollment of one or more authenticating biometric data templates with or without requiring input of non-biometric authentication data, such as an activation code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX Biometrics ASA
    Inventors: Fred G. Benkley, III, Peter Joseph Commerford, Jeffrey Joseph Buxton, Anne L. McAleer, Sarangan Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 10534952
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a matching process that determines a conforming pattern match to a pattern-under-test from a set of matching patterns in a pattern storage. A matching process tests every template against the pattern-under-test and resolves a conforming match condition when multiple matches to the pattern-under-test are found. In some embodiments, a matcher engine using variable match thresholds may be used to differentiate among matching templates to identify a conforming-matching template with respect to the pattern-under-test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 10528789
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for producing a consistent desired set of operational parameters during use of a patterning solution that would otherwise alter an initial set of operational parameters. A variable match process is adjusted dynamically to counter changes to the performance metric to tend to maintain the performance metric at a desired predetermined specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 10520477
    Abstract: Valve with multi-piece stator assembly for use with liquid chromatography or other analytical systems. A separate and removable stator plate is provided with a mounting device to provide a multi-piece stator assembly. The mounting device is adapted on one side to engage and contact the stator plate, and on the other side includes a plurality of ports for fluidic connections which are in fluid communication with fluid passageways in the stator plate. By making the stator face a separate component, the overall costs of the valve can be reduced, different materials can be used for the mounting device and the stator, and the valve can be used for ultra-high pressure applications, including in liquid chromatography and other analytical instrument systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Quan Liu, Jon Nichols, Jeremy Hayes, Carl Sims, Mark Tschann
  • Patent number: 10422452
    Abstract: Fluidic connection assemblies, ports, unions and other components are provided that are well-suited for use in HPLC and UHPLC, as well as in other analytical instrument systems. Such assemblies, ports, unions and components can be biocompatible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Craig Graham, Don Pein
  • Patent number: 10393553
    Abstract: A modular sensor for a fluidic analysis or biological assay system, such as an analytical instrument system, and other systems involving fluid flow, includes a cap and base which include one or more sensors therein, which may be a flow sensor, a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a pH sensor, and so forth. The base of the modular sensor includes input and output ports for fluid passageways therethrough to provide a fluid pathway which is at least partially adjacent to or near the sensor. The modular sensor may also include an adapter having ports adapted to sealingly engage with fitting assemblies. The sensor may be partially or wholly encapsulated as part of the base of the modular sensor. The modular sensor's base and cap are adapted so that a first modular sensor can be disconnected and removed from a fluidic system and a second modular sensor can be added and connected to the system in place of the first modular sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Kostandin Kareco, Lisa Shinn, Andrew Shaw, Mark Joiner, Troy Sanders
  • Patent number: 10395129
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently and securely evolving a pattern, such as a fingerprint representation, from a dynamic set of impressions responsive to a pattern-under-test which may be the pattern. The system may include two modes: 1) a trusted registration mode, and 2) a dynamic, semi-trusted, registration mode. In this context, the dynamic mode is semi-trusted in that it automatically employs trusted information to evaluate new, non-trusted input received from the pattern collection system and, in an event certain criteria are satisfied, this dynamic mode may gain automatic access to the trusted memory/trusted template. That the automatic access to the trusted template is conditional makes this dynamic mode semi-trusted. The trusted registration mode may include definition/production of a trusted template of trusted template elements in a trusted memory, at least one of the trusted template elements includes at least one evolvable seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
  • Patent number: 10384151
    Abstract: Valve with two-piece stator assembly for use with liquid chromatography or other analytical systems. A separate and removable stator plate is provided with a mounting device to provide a two-piece stator assembly. The mounting device is adapted on one side to engage and contact the stator plate, and on the other side includes a plurality of ports for fluidic connections which are in fluid communication with fluid passageways in the stator plate. By making the stator face a separate component, the overall costs of the valve can be reduced, different materials can be used for the mounting device and the stator, and the valve can be used for ultra-high pressure applications, including in liquid chromatography and other analytical instrument systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX Health & Science LLC
    Inventors: Quan Liu, Jeremy Hayes
  • Patent number: 10387707
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor assembly includes a capacitive fingerprint sensor disposed beneath a thin layer of glass and a reinforcement layer of a material of relatively high dielectric constant bonded to the glass between the glass layer and the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: IDEX ASA
    Inventors: David Rodney Baker, David N. Light
  • Publication number: 20190251322
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor for incorporation into a smart card includes sensor electrodes for detecting fingerprint features of a finger placed on a contact surface, the sensor electrodes being disposed above a substrate layer that comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a ledge where an edge of the first portion extends beyond an edge of the second portion. Contact points disposed on the ledge connect the fingerprint sensor to electrical conductors of an intermediate layer of a multi-layer smartcard. The fingerprint sensor is disposed within a cavity formed in a body of the smartcard, and the contact points disposed on the ledge are set at a depth corresponding to the thickness of an outer layer covering the electrical conductors of the intermediate layer of the smartcard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: IDEX ASA
    Inventors: Øyvind SLØGEDAL, Ralph W. Bernstein
  • Publication number: 20190236320
    Abstract: A device for contactless communication with a terminal, the device comprising: an antenna for receiving a wireless signal emitted by the terminal; an embedded chip configured to generate data for communication to the terminal to perform a first function associated with the device; and a module separate from the chip configured to perform processes as part of a second function associated with the device, the module being connected to the antenna and comprising a power-harvesting unit configured to harvest power from the received wireless signal to power at least the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: IDEX ASA
    Inventors: Keith AHLUWALIA, Peter Eckehard KOLLIG, Anthony Michael EATON, Tuck Weng POON, Fred G. BENKLEY, III