ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,613, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Controlling an active fingerprint sensor area" was invented by Naga Chandan Babu Gudivada (Hyderabad, India), Rakesh Pallerla (Hyderabad, India) and Prakash Tiwari (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems for controlling an active fingerprint sensor area of a fingerprint sensor system are disclosed. In some examples, the one or more active fingerprint sensor area criteria may involve, or correspond to, a security level. The security level may correspond to a data security level, a software application security level, or a combinatio...