ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,005, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Implementation of biometric authentication" was invented by Marcel Van Os (San Francisco), Peter D. Anton (San Francisco), Arian Behzadi (San Francisco), Jeffrey T. Bernstein (San Francisco), Lynne Devine (San Francisco), Allison W. Dryer (Tiburon, Calif.), Cas G. Lemmens (San Francisco) and Joseph A. Malia (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to implementing biometric authentication, including providing user interfaces for: while the electronic device is in a first state in which a respective function of the elect...