ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,850, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Fingerprint identification method, device, electronic apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Ying Min (Suwon-si, South Korea), Feng Zhu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hanhui Li (Suwon-si, South Korea), Huaiwen Bai (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yunhao Zhang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Xiaochun Yan (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chunmiao Jiang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wenyan Zheng (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yanjun Chen (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiangbo Chen (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Zhijie Lv (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presen...