08ff:5736 AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor

AuthenTec, Inc.

Vendor ID
08ff
Product ID
5736
Combined
08ff:5736
Decimal
2303:22326

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor manufactured by AuthenTec, Inc.. The vendor ID 08ff is registered to AuthenTec, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 5736 is the product ID that AuthenTec, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 08ff:5736 AuthenTec, Inc. AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 08ff:5736 AuthenTec, Inc. AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 08ff:5736, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 08ff:5736. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=08ff, idProduct=5736.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_08FF&PID_5736
USB\VID_08FF&PID_5736&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_08FF&PID_5736"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor:
      Product ID: 0x5736
      Vendor ID: 0x08ff  (AuthenTec, Inc.)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

08ff  AuthenTec, Inc.
	5736  AES3500-BZ TruePrint Sensor

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