Joe Rice

Joe Rice invented vein pattern recognition, built the first vein biometric readers, and wrote the blueprint for the development of the U.I.D.™ biometric module. Rice successfully managed the start-up www.brite-sparks.com to profitability and was one of the winners of the Economist’s “Factory of The Year Award 1993” for Kodak’s Annesley plant in Nottinghamshire, U.K. and was also recognized as Kodak’s most innovative employee following more than 20 inventions and innovations submitted to the Kodak Limited product opportunities panel.