ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,324, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device including a plurality of optical fingerprint sensors, method for acquiring and authenticating fingerprint information in the same" was invented by Jinho Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a first fingerprint sensor, a second fingerprint sensor, a memory, and a processor configured to acquire a first fingerprint image corresponding to an external object requesting fingerprint authentication through the first fingerprint sensor...