ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,416, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Apparatus and method for ultrasonic fingerprint and touch sensing" was invented by Kohei Azumi (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may include sensor pixels with interleaved ultrasonically-sensitive regions. Each of a plurality of sensor pixels in the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may include nine distinct ultrasonically-sensitive regions electrically coupled to a common readout circuit, where there is an ultrasonically-sensitive region of another sensor pixel disposed between each of the nine distinct ultrasonically-se...