US Patent Issued to ELAN MICROELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Card having a fingerprint sensor and manufacturing method of the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,902, issued on April 7, was assigned to ELAN MICROELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Card having a fingerprint sensor and manufacturing method of the same" was invented by Yu-Kai Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chien-Wen Tsai (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Ta-Huang Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card having a fingerprint sensor and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The fingerprint sensor is disposed between a substrate and a protection layer. The protection layer has a first area and a second area thereon. The roughness of the second area is smaller than the roughness of the first area. The second...