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Ceelox issued new patent

Monday, June 27, 2011

Ceelox has announced it has been issued a new patent by the U.S. Patent Office entitled “System And Method For Biometrically Secured, Transparent Encryption And Decryption.”

The patent, which relates to the technology behind a biometrically enabled encryption and decryption of digital files, is used in Ceelox’ Vault, a fingerprint-based file encryption manager for either computers or mobile devices. One of he key features of Vault that Ceelox touts is its ease of use with a drag and drop style of encrypting and decrypting where a file is simply dragged over the Vault icon to be prompted for a biometric sample to encrypt unencrypted files or decrypt encrypted files. [end] 

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