US Patent Issued to ASUSTeK COMPUTER on Dec. 23 for "Device unlocking method and electronic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,196, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Device unlocking method and electronic device" was invented by Chih-Hsien Yang (Taipei, Taiwan), Hui-Fen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and I-Hsi Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device unlocking method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: detecting fingerprint information of a user by a first sensor of the electronic device; authenticating the fingerprint information and temporarily storing an authentication result of the fingerprint information; after authenticating the fingerprint information, detecting operation envir...