ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,126, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sensel Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Human-computer interface system" was invented by Ilya Daniel Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Aaron Zarraga (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a system includes: a substrate including an aperture and a multi-layer inductor; and a cover layer arranged over the substrate and cooperating with the aperture to define a housing. Additionally, the system includes a fingerprint reader arranged within the housing and configured to permeate through the cover layer to scan a fingerprint applied over the cover layer. A magnetic element...