ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,017, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Elongated fingerprint sensor" was invented by Daniel B. Sargent (San Francisco), Dale Setlak (Merritt Island, Fla.), Giovanni Gozzini (Berkeley, Calif.), John Raff (Menlo Park, Calif.), Michael B. Wittenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard H. Koch (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ron A. Hopkinson (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongated biometric device provides a slim solution for capturing biometric data, and may be placed on a portion of an electronic device having limited space, such as a side of the electronic device. The elongated biometric device ...