Taiwan’s iMTC Technology has selected SEALSQ’s QVault TPM183 security chip for a fingerprint-recognition mouse designed for medical workstations. The device combines biometric sign-in with hardware protection for cryptographic keys and device identity in shared hospital environments.
The Fingerprint Recognition Medical Mouse supports Windows Hello, Microsoft’s biometric authentication system, and Windows Enhanced Sign-in Security. Its intended users include doctors, nurses and technicians accessing shared computers, electronic medical records and patient information systems.
The fingerprint reader is built into the mouse, allowing staff to authenticate using a workstation input device. SEALSQ says this arrangement is intended to avoid changing clinicians’ workflow while adding hardware-backed protection to computers that different employees use repeatedly during a shift.
The TPM-enabled version uses a Trusted Platform Module 2.0 architecture, providing a hardware-based root of trust for login credentials and keys. A root of trust supplies protected security functions that other parts of a system can rely on when authenticating a device or user.
iMTC’s product family has four configurations. The basic iM-FRM-2608A supports fingerprint recognition, Windows Hello and Enhanced Sign-in Security. The iM-FRM-2608TPM adds SEALSQ’s TPM183, while the iM-FRM-2608SE uses a customizable secure element for advanced cryptographic functions.
The fourth configuration, iM-FRM-2608QS, incorporates a security microcontroller and explicitly includes FIDO2 support alongside the Windows features. FIDO2 is the authentication standard used for passwordless credentials, including passkeys.
SEALSQ describes the TPM183 platform as having a roadmap toward future post-quantum cryptography support. The selected chip provides the current hardware foundation, while the migration path addresses cryptographic requirements as the product evolves.
The selection brings TPM183 into iMTC’s commercial production designs. SEALSQ CEO Carlos Moreira said it extends the company’s healthcare work from patient credentials and medical devices to clinician login. The company already supplies chips for patient-card terminals and secure elements for connected medical devices and remote monitoring.
SEALSQ is separately planning quantum-resistant palm-payment hardware with Palm Technologies, using its QS7001 technology. That project concerns a different chip and application from the TPM183-based medical mouse.
Cryptographic device and software identities also underpin Keyfactor’s machine-identity and post-quantum trust business. iMTC says its fingerprint input devices target healthcare and other security-sensitive settings; the new mouse also addresses workstation authentication in manufacturing, education, logistics, government and banking.
Sources: GlobeNewswire
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
