ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,805, issued on April 15, was assigned to Suprema Inc. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Electronic device and method for registering and authenticating fingerprint" was invented by Jae Hyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jong Man Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Mook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hochul Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Bong Seop Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registering a fingerprint of a user through an electronic device, comprising: sensing a fingerprint input into a fingerprint recognition area formed on a display module of the electronic device to capture at lea...