ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,242, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Fingerprint sensor device and method" was invented by Yu-Chih Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hua Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Jen Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Yu-Feng Chen (Toufen Town, Taiwan), Hao-Yi Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-shi Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint sensor package and method are provided. Embodiments include a sensor and a sensor surface material encapsulated within the fingerprint sensor package. An array of electrodes...