ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,928, issued on July 7, was assigned to DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Backlit finger feature recognition structure" was invented by Tsai-Jung Hu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Tan Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlit finger feature recognition structure includes a feature sensor configured to sense a finger feature, a light guide member disposed surrounding the finger sensor, a circuit board assembly disposed corresponding to the light guide member and electrically connected to a lower side of the feature sensor, and an illuminant electrically connected to the circuit board assembly, wh...