| Notes |
1.2 Concurring events of significance 1992-1994
- 1993 Biometric company American Morpho Systems, a contractor to the FBI, was taken over by state
owned French army contractor SAGEM. Morpho had been a contractor to the FBI, offering the mostadvanced algorithms to read in fingerprints at that timer. SAGEM Morpho was to become the world market
leader in fingerprint systems.
"The company was founded in the United States in 1985 as a subsidiary of French fingerprint systems
developer Morpho Systèmes, S.A. In March 1993 the SAGEM Group of Paris, France purchased both North
American Morpho and MORPHO Systèmes, S.A. The SAGEM Group is an internationally recognized,
broad-based technology supplier of telecommunications, electronics, and defense systems. Reflecting our
growing relationship with our parent company, North American MORPHO Systems, Inc. became SAGEM
Morpho, Inc. on January 1, 1998. |