ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,347, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image compensation for fingerprint sensor deployed in a flexible device" was invented by Kwokleung Chan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raj Kumar (San Diego), Jessica Liu Strohmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Sandeep Louis D'Souza (San Diego), Deepak Rajendra Karnik (San Diego), Advait Prasad Koparkar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hasib Siddiqui (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some methods may involve receiving fingerprint image data and a first set of background image data from a fingerprint sensor and determining first processed fingerprint image data via a subtraction of th...