ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,740, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and devices for precluding processing of biometric sensor samples to prevent false sensor authentication" was invented by Ranjeet Gupta (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.) and Rakshit Khosla (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a biometric sensor. One or more processors of the electronic device or a pre-processor of the biometric sensor detect actuation of the biometric sensor. The one or more processors or the pre-processor can then determine whether at least one predefined condition is occurring concurrently with actuation of ...