MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517049848 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on May 23, for 'systems and methods for fingerprint scanning with smudge detection and correction.'

Inventor(s) include Sammoura, Firas; and Miller, James, Brooks.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An example device includes a display component comprising a fingerprint sensor configured to scan a fingerprint of a finger. The device includes one or more processors operable to perform operations, including detecting, during a fingerprint authentication phase, a motion of the f...