Granted Patent
Utility
US 6,072,895 · App. 08/823,637
System and method using minutiae pruning for fingerprint image processing
Inventors:
Rudolf Maarten Bolle, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti
Patented Case
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Granted: Jun 6, 2000
Filed: Mar 25, 1997
Inventors
Rudolf Maarten Bolle
Sharathchandra U. Pankanti
Assignee (at issue)
International Business Machines Corporation
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