US Patent Issued to HTC on July 22 for "Wearable device and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,271, issued on July 22, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Wearable device and control method thereof" was invented by Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device interacting with a computing device includes a fingerprint identification module, a pressure sense module, a verification chip, and a processor. The fingerprint identification module receives a fingerprint signal. The fingerprint identification module performs a first verification process on the fingerprint signal. The pressure sense module receives a touch signal....