This wide ranging patent award covers employee and personnel tracking and entry access control systems that use optical cards with biometrics. Other allowed claims cover uses of optical cards specific to the air transport industry, security applications in the petrochemical industries, clinical medical records and pharmaceutical/pharmacy uses, optical cards coupled with RFID technology and others.
The claims center around the protection of high-value economic assets such as airports, refineries, nuclear operations, manufacturing facilities and government buildings. A total of 26 claims filed by BSI2000 have been allowed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The original application was filed in 1999.
BSI2000 President and CEO Jack Harper said, "I am very happy indeed to receive notification of the awarding of this very broad patent. It is a highly significant event for BSI2000 and our shareholders."
"This award not only protects products we have developed and continue to develop for homeland security applications but it also increases the value of the company's proprietary intellectual capital. We have approximately 20 other patents pending - all in the optical card field - many of which I consider to be base patents."
Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP of San Francisco serves as patent counsel for the company. Townsend is the largest intellectual properties law firm west of the Mississippi River.