Probaris was awarded a contract to assist the United States Patent and Trademark Office comply with HSPD-12. The Patent and Trademark Office is a federal agency under the Department of Commerce. Probaris will install its Probaris ID, an end-to-end secure identity solution, to produce smart identity credentials for the office’s personnel. The Patent and Trademark Office will use the credentials for physical and logical access control within their enterprise architecture.

Under the terms of the contract, Probaris will deliver:

• Identity proofing and vetting, and document authentication;

• Secure workflow software;

• Software to provide multi-biometric identification enrollment and management of facial images, live scan fingerprints, and fingerprint minutia;

• Card management system software and integration components for interfaces to public key infrastructure to manage the credentials; and,

• Professional services to analyze business rules and integration of logical and physical security system components.

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