Company: BKYI
Filing Date: 2025-08-27
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001437749-25-027870
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Company: BIO KEY INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-27
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 27, 2025</div>

| Registration No. 333-_______ |

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
<div align='center'>Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8</div>

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT
<div align='center'>UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

BIO-KEY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Delaware                                                       
 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | 41-1741861                           
 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| 101 Crawfords Corner Road                                      
 Suite 4116                                                     
 Holmdel, NJ                                                    
 (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                       | 07733                                
 (Zip Code)                           |

<div align='center'>BIO-key International, Inc.

2023 Stock Incentive Plan, as Amended

(Full title of the plan)

Michael W. DePasquale

Chief Executive Officer

BIO-key International, Inc.

101 Crawfords Corner Road

Suite 4116

Holmdel, NJ 07733

(Name and address of agent for service)

(732) 359-1100

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies requested to:

Vincent A. Vietti, Esquire

Fox Rothschild LLP

212 Carnegie Center

Suite 400

Princeton, NJ 08540

(609) 896-3600</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer ☐ | Accelerated filer ☐         |
| Non-accelerated filer ☒   | Smaller reporting company ☒ |
|                           | Emerging growth company ☐   |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act