ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,426, issued on June 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for under-display applications" was invented by Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Ila Ravindra Badge (San Jose, Calif.), Yipeng Lu (Moraga, Calif.), Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.), Suryaprakash Ganti (Los Altos, Calif.), Chin-Jen Tseng (Fremont, Calif.), Nicholas Ian Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Tsongming Kao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Leonard Eugene Fennell (San Jose, Calif.), Firas Sammoura (Dublin, Calif.), Jessica Liu Strohmann (Cupertino, Calif.) and David William Burns (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...