Company: BKYI
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001437749-25-027950
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Company: BIO KEY INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-28
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>EXPLANATORY NOTE</div>

BIO-key International, Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) has filed this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register an additional 700,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), issuable under the BIO-key International, Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended (the “ESPP”). This share increase was approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, upon recommendation of the Compensation Committee, on June 18, 2025, and was approved and adopted by the Company’s stockholders on August 8, 2025. The Company previously filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Reg. No. 333-257754) to register the initial 43,834 shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the ESPP, which prior Registration Statement, with the exception of Items 3 and 8 of Part II of such prior Registration Statement, is hereby incorporated by reference.

All figures have been adjusted to reflect the 18-for-1 stock split effected on December 20, 2023.

<div align='center'>PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</div>

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The Company hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents which have been previously filed (not furnished) with the SEC (File No. 001-13463):

In addition, all other documents filed (not furnished) by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), Section 13(c), Section 14 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference and to be a part of this Registration Statement from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished to and not filed with the SEC in accordance with the rules of the SEC shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this