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bioMETRX incorporates OKI's fingerprint engine in its product line

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

bioMETRX and Oki Semiconductor Company are working together on a new solution that will result in lowering bioMETRX’s overall build costs for its expanding smartTOUCH finger-activated consumer product lines.

OKI recently announced that it has begun sampling its ML67Q5250 a “single-chip” solution enabling fingerprint authentication. “bioMETRX has been testing various technologies supplied to it by OKI Semiconductor, with additional engineering assistance from OKI headquarters in Japan. The engineering effort was initiated to examine whether we could reduce component and manufacturing costs of the smartTOUCH brand of finger activated consumer products,” stated Mark R. Basile, CEO of bioMETRX, Inc. [end] 

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