ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,227, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Fingerprint recognition method and apparatus" was invented by Haoxuan Di (Shenzhen, China), Danhong Li (Shenzhen, China), Junlong Guo (Shenzhen, China) and Mingjin Guo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint recognition method and apparatus are applied to the field of fingerprint recognition technologies. The method includes: collecting a to-be-enrolled fingerprint image; performing, based on a first calibration image, calibration processing on the to-be-enrolled fingerprint image to obtain a first fingerprint image; and determinin...