US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Image enhancement for fingerprint sensor deployed in a flexible device" (Taiwanese, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,940, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Image enhancement for fingerprint sensor deployed in a flexible device" was invented by Changting Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Kwokleung Chan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jessica Liu Strohmann (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei-En Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Jin Gu (Gloucester, Canada) and Chuenwen Chung (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some methods may involve receiving fingerprint image data. Some methods may involve determining whether the fingerprint image data was captured by a first fingerprint sensor of a device or a second fingerprint sensor of the device. Some methods m...