Patents by Inventor Alexander Muzel

Alexander Muzel 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).

  • Apparatus and method for electronically acquiring fingerprint images
    Patent number: 6069969
    Abstract: A thin, inexpensive, removable platen for a direct fingerprint reader without a permanently attached platen. A removable platen is formed as a transparent area on a credit card, passport or identification card or as a separate card. The portable platen on the card is inserted over an imaging area of the direct fingerprint reader. Light from the direct fingerprint reader passes through an optical surface formed on the underside of the portable platen, is reflected off the fingerprint and passes back through the optical surface to the imaging apparatus where the image is digitized and analyzed. The optical surface is formed such that the incident light is not refracted away from the fingerprint and the reflected light from the fingerprint is not refracted away from the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Identicator Technology
    Inventors: John Martin Keagy, Naum Pinkhasik, Alexander Muzel
  • Apparatus and method for electronically acquiring fingerprint images with low cost removable platen and separate imaging device
    Patent number: 5732148
    Abstract: A thin, inexpensive, removable platen for a direct fingerprint reader without a permanently attached platen. A removable platen is formed as a transparent area on a credit card, passport or identification card or as a separate card. The portable platen on the card is inserted over an imaging area of the direct fingerprint reader. Light from the direct fingerprint reader passes through an optical surface formed on the underside of the portable platen, is reflected off the fingerprint and passes back through the optical surface to the imaging apparatus where the image is digitized and analyzed. The optical surface is formed such that the incident light is not refracted away from the fingerprint and the reflected light from the fingerprint is not refracted away from the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Inventors: John Martin Keagy, Naum Pinkhasik, Alexander Muzel