US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 22 for "Storage device with concurrent intialization and fingerprint recognition" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,270, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage device with concurrent intialization and fingerprint recognition" was invented by Youngjin Park (Incheon, South Korea) and Ilgyu Jung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for operating a storage device having biometric security protection, including: simultaneously starting both a device initialization operation and a biometric recognition operation; and if the device initialization operation has completed and the biometric recognition operation has successfully completed, setting the storage...